Port Sunlight War Memorial
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Port Sunlight War Memorial
Image: © David Dixon Taken: 5 Jun 2012
The magnificent Lever Brothers War Memorial, at the centre of Port Sunlight village, is the second largest war memorial in the country after the Cenotaph in Whitehall. The monument was commissioned by Lord Leverhulme in 1917 to honour those Lever Brothers’ employees who fell in the Great War. The monument is themed “Defence of the home” and is very unusual for a Great War memorial in that it shows a number of women and children. The central cross is surrounded by several groups of greater than life-size figures: "Soldiers guard women and children and a wounded comrade whom a nurse is about to tend; a seated woman cradles a group of infants, and a frightened little girl stands, guarded by her equally frightened but brave and defiant younger brother; a Boy Scout stands with the soldiers" (http://www.victorianweb.org/sculpture/john/14.html The Victorian Web).
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Image Location
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