XX Lancashire Fusiliers War Memorial – Bury, UK
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This combined World War I and World War II memorial to the Lancashire Fusiliers Regiment stands outside their regimental museum that opened on 25th September 2009.
Waymark Code: WMDFVM
Location: North West England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 01/10/2012
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The fusiliers have a long association with Bury and used to have barracks on Bolton Road. The war memorial originally stood outside the barracks.
However in 2009 a museum dedicated to the Lancashire Fusiliers opened in the centre of the town centre and at the same time this memorial was moved to its present position.
It was originally unveiled in 1922 after the First World War, but has since been updated as a memorial to members of the regiment who died in the Second World War and all other subsequent wars.
The memorial consists of a tall thin Portland stone obelisk on square granite plinth and circular two stepped base. It has a wreath and regimental cap badge on front face and stone enamelled flags mounted on each side. It is a Grade II listed building.
The total height of the memorial is 6.85 metres and the obelisk portion is 4.15 metres high.
The designer of the monument was Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens RA. He was a famous architect who also designed the Cenotaph in Whitehall and a large memorial in Thiepval in the Somme. Both his uncle and father had served in the Lancashire Fusiliers so he waived his fees for the memorial.
The regimental motto ‘Omnia audax’ is on the memorial and can be translated as ‘Dare Anything’.
The regiment won more Victoria Crosses in the First World War than any other and are famous for winning 6 in one morning in the Gallipoli Landings. The regiment is so famous for this that the area with the memorial has been renamed Gallipoli Gardens.
Date Created/Placed: 4/25/1922
Address:
Gallipoli Gardens
Silver Street
Bury
Greater Manchester
United Kingdom
Height: 4.15 Metres
Illuminated: no
Website: [Web Link]
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