Gallery:Eastbourne
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Eastbourne
Lottbridge Drove at Hammonds Drive... (C) Robin Webster
A dual carriageway with industrial and retail parks to right and left.
A dual carriageway with industrial and retail parks to right and left.
War Memorial, Devonshire Place, Eastbourne The War Memorial in Devonshire Place at Eastbourne.
The memorial, by Henry Charles Fehr, was unveiled in 1920. It is in the form of a granite memorial which is surmounted by bronze statue, the ???Angel of Victory???, holding a laurel wreath in the left hand and a raised inverted sword in the right. There are bronze plaques to north and south sides.
This is looking at the south face, the raised lettering on the bronze plaque reads:
THE TRIBUTE OF
EASTBOURNE TO HER GALLANT SONS AND DAUGHTERS WHO WERE FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 - 1918 THEIR NAMES ARE RECORDED ON OAK TABLETS IN THE TOWN HALL