One side of the soldier's stone face has been ravaged, the, cheek pockmarked, the nose devoured by time. Like a piece of fruit left too long in a ditch, gnawed by scavengers.
He knows about duty, Despite his wounds he stands at attention atop the cenotaph, as he has for eighty years, surveying the plains beyond the town, hollow gaze cast over Bridge Street towards the car park of the new shopping center; a land fit for heroes. . . . He and his pillar have become mossy; microscopic plants thrive in the etched names of the dead. . . . No wonder he is crumbling. It is a lot to ask of one man, to bear The strain of countless tragedies, bear witness to countless echoes of death.
But he is not alone: there is one like him in every English town. They are the nation's scars; a rash of gallant scabs spread across the land in 1919, a spate of determined healing. — Kate Morton, The House at Riverton (2006)
London
- The Carabiniers Memorial [Boer War]
- Royal Artillery Boer War Memorial
- Crimean War memorial
- Imperial Camel Corps Monument
- Royal Artillery Memorial
- The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)
- Cavalry Memorial (4 images)
- War Memorial in Prudential Assurance Building
- The Machinegun Corps Memorial
- Twickenham War Mermorial
- Smithfield Market War Memorial
- National Submarine War Memorial
- Memorial to Captain Charles Fryatt and the Great Eastern Railways Memorial, Liverpool Street Station
Liverpool
- The Nelson Memorial by Sir Richard Westmacott
- King's Liverpool Regiment Memorial
- Memorial to the Engine Room Heroes
- News Room War Memorial
- Cenotaph, Lime Street, Liverpool
- Birkenhead War Memorial
Other locations
- World War I memorial, Queen's University, Belfast
- Boer War memorial, Belfast
- Boer War memorial, Cardiff
- The Defence of the Home
- Statues in Sir Ninian Comper's Welsh National War Memorial, Cardiff
- South African War Memorial
- Spirit of the Crusades
Last modified 19 February 2012