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Originally Posted by Retlaw
Many thanks Margaret all those freezes are WW1. Uniform, rifles, equpiment & the nurses uniform, the odd one out it the main seated soldier, the name of the sculptor is on the base, that should give date.
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By Walter Marsden from Church, 1924, who also did the memorial in Gatty Park and others. No suggestion that the contorted soldier “with twisting body and clenched fist” is of a different date. See the clip in my previous links showing the unveiling.
Walter Marsden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
UK National Inventory of War Memorials : ST ANNES ON SEA
This is the architect
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_...#War_memorials