World War 1 Memorial - Fishponds, Bristol. UK - World War I Memorials and Monuments on Waymarking.com

Fishponds War Memorial, commissioned in 1919, was designed and built by Messrs Humphrey and Oakes of Lawrence Hill in Bristol for the sum of £615. The statue was sculpted from life but there is no record of the name of the artist or the model. The memorial was officially unveiled on 19 March 1921 by Colonel D Burges OBE DL, the original commanding officer of the 12th Battalion of the Gloucestershire Regiment, the locally-recruited Pals battalion known as 'Bristol's Own'. It commemorates 204 local servicemen who died in the First World War.
At the unveiling ceremony the Chairman of the War Memorial Committee, Mr HG Vassall, presented the memorial to the Lord Mayor, Mr GB Britton MP. Mayor Britton described the memorial as ‘a most pleasing, most unconventional, and original manifestation on the part of the residents in that part of the city’. Of the men named on the memorial he said, ‘we want to perpetuate their memory, and hand down to our children and our grandchildren the expression of what you and I thought about them’.

Date the Monument or Memorial was built or dedicated: 03/19/1921 Private or Public Monument?: Government Name of the Private Organization or Government Entity that built this Monument: Bristol City Council. Geographic Region where the Monument is located: Europe Website for this Monument: [Web Link] Physical Address of Monument: Fishponds Park Fishponds Road Bristol, England Bs16 3AU Rate this waymark: Photo or photos will be uploaded.: yes

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