[Margaret Pilkington]

On the opposite side of the memorial is a seated mother with a baby.......I took this to be - soldier is the face of war.....Mother and babe - the face of peace and hope for the future.
It may not be meant to convey that, but that is how I read it.

I really like the memorial and spent quite a long time reading the plaque and looking at the friezes. and yet the young soldier looks somehow not of the era.
He looked more current.

I thought the statue on the top looked a lot like the one in Gatty park....now I know the same sulptor was involved in both of them, it does make sense