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Title
War Memorial
Date
1921
Medium
bronze & stone
Measurements
H 330 x W (?) x D (?) cm;
Plinth: H 360 x W 290 x D 290 cm
Accession number
EC1R_NH_S002
Work type
War memorial
Owner
Islington London Borough Council
Custodian
Islington London Borough Council
Work status
extant
Listing status
Grade II (England and Wales)
Unveiling date
15th August 1921
Listing date
26/09/00
Access
time restrictions apply
Access note
park opening times apply
Inscription description
6 o'clock face: BOROUGH OF FINSBURY / IN THE NAME OF GOD THE MOST HIGH / AND TO ENSHRINE IN PERPETUAL / LOVE AND REVERENCE THE GLORIOUS / MEMORY OF THE MEN OF THIS / BOROUGH WHO IN DEATH MADE THE / SUPREME SACRIFICE FOR THEIR KING / THEIR COUNTRY AND THEIR KINDRED / IN THE GREAT EUROPEAN WAR OF / 1914-1918 / THIS MONUMENT IS ERECTED / BY GRATEFUL FELLOW CITIZENS IN / WHOSE HEART THE RECORD OF THEIR / COMRADES' HARDSHIPS AND ACHIEVEMENTS / IN THE CAUSE OF INTERNATIONAL / HUMANITY, FREEDOM AND JUSTICE / WILL REMAIN FOR EVER / INEFFACEABLE AND IMPERISHABLE / "THROUGH TRIAL TO TRIUMPH"; 6 o'clock face base plaque: IN MEMORY / OF THOSE WHO FELL / IN WORLD WAR 2 / 1939 – 1945; 9 o'clock face: FINSBURY RIFLES ATTACKING GAZA / TUESDAY 17 APRIL 1917 / 11TH LONDON REGIMENT / (THE FINSBURY RIFLES) / BATTLE FRONTS / GALLIPOLI - EGYPT - PALESTINE / SYRIA - FRANCE – BELGIUM; 9 o'clock face, lower step: 11TH LONDON REGIMENT (FINSBURY RIFLES) / BATTLE FRONTS / GALLIPOLI EGYPT PALESTINE / SYRIA FRANCE BELGIUM; 12 o'clock face: THESE ARE THEY / THAT WENT DOWN / TO THE SEA IN SHIPS / AND DID BUSINESS / IN GREAT WATERS / THEY HAVE SEEN / THE WORKS OF THE LORD / AND HIS WONDERS / UPON THE DEEP / AND HAVE REACHED / THEIR DESIRED HAVEN / NAVAL ATTACK ON ZEEBRUGGE / ST GEORGE'S DAY / TUESDAY 23 APRIL 1918; 3 o'clock face: IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHO SERVED AND DIED / IN THE ROYAL FLYING CORPS 1914 - 1918 / HONOURABLE ARTILLERY COMPANY / BATTLE FRONTS / EGYPT - PALESTINE - ITALY / FRANCE - BELGIUM - ADEN - SYRIA / IN MEMORY OF THOSE MEMBERS OF / THE HONOURABLE ARTILLERY COMPANY WHO LOST THEIR / LIVES IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR 1939 - 1945
