Liverpool Cenotaph

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This is a cenotaph - a monument erected in honour of a group of people whose remains are elsewhere. It is a rectangular block of stone on a stone platform, with bronze, low-relief sculptures on the sides depicting marching troops and mourners. It was designed by Lionel Budden, with carving by Herbert Tyson Smith. It remembers the victims of the First World War, with the dates of the Second World War added later.  The incription says:  East: TO THE MEN OF LIVERPOOL WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR/AND THE VICTORY THAT DAY WAS TURNED INTO MOURNING UNTO ALL THE PEOPLE West: AS UNKNOWN AND YET WELL KNOWN; AS DYING, AND BEHOLD WE LIVE/ OUT OF THE NORTH PARTS....A GREAT COMPANY AND A MIGHTY ARMY North and South: 1914 - 1919/ 1939 - 1945 Added to East Face in 2001: AND ALL WHO HAVE FALLEN IN CONFLICT SINCE