XX Lancashire Fusileers World War I And Subsequent Wars Memorial – Bury, UK - Specific Veteran Memorials on Waymarking.com

The fusiliers have a long association with Bury and used to have barracks on Bolton Road. The war memorial originally stood outside the barracks.

The XX in their regimental name is Latin for 20, this regiment being the 20th Fusilier regiment.

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. This move was rather controversial in the town and a 2500 name petition was signed to try and prevent it.

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 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.

The memorial is number 3244 in the United Kingdom National Inventory of War Memorials.

The following inscription is on the memorial.

XX
OMNIA AUDAX

MCM
XIV
+
MCM
XIX

TO THE
LANCASHIRE FUSILIERS
THEIR
DEEDS AND SACRIFICES
FOR
KING AND COUNTRY

MCMXXXIX
+
MCMXLV

AND ALL FUSILIERS WHO DIED
IN SUBSEQUENT CAMPAINS

Website pertaining to the memorial: [Web Link] List if there are any visiting hours: The memorial is in a small park outside the Lancashire Fusileers Museum and can be accessed at any time. Entrance fees (if it applies): None Type of memorial: Monument

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