Northampton: monument to Lt Col Edgar R Mobbs
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Northampton: monument to Lt Col Edgar R Mobbs
Image: © John Sutton Taken: 16 Aug 2014
This monument, and the town's war memorial (behind the camera) stand on a traffic island at the junction of the Kettering and Wellingborough roads. The inscription on the front reads: "Lieut-Col Edgar R Mobbs DSO. Commanding officer 7th Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment. Killed in action July 31st 1917 aged 35. O valiant hearts who to your glory came / Through dust of conflict and through battle flame, / Tranquil you lie your knightly virtue proved, / Your memory hallowed in the land you loved." A plaque on the rear reads: "Erected by subscriptions of admirers the world over to the memory of a great and gallant soldier sportsman. When The Great War broke out he founded Mobbs Company. Joined as a private and rose to command the battalion to which it belonged."
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