"A memorial to the Liverpool Pals who served during World War One has been unveiled by Prince Edward.
The £85,000 frieze at Liverpool's Lime Street station was where men and boys queued up to volunteer to fight for their country a 100 years ago.
The frieze was designed by sculptor Tom Murphy and shows the Pals' journey through World War One.
It follows a three-year campaign by the Liverpool Pals Memorial Fund to create a permanent tribute to volunteers.
'Master of his craft'
Lt Col Tony Hollingsworth MBE, from the Liverpool Pals Memorial Fund, said the sculptor had done a "fantastic job" of capturing their journey.
He said Mr Murphy, whose other works include a statue to former Liverpool FC manager Bill Shankly, was a "master of his craft".
"It shows the actual jolly time of them all forming up and little did they know of what they were going to get into and of course the devastation at the end of it," he said.
As part of the unveiling ceremony, there is also a re-enactment of the Liverpool Pals signing up to answer Lord Derby's call for recruits.
Every man taking part will be given an envelope representing one of the Liverpool Pals and inside it will detail what happened to them in the war.
In 1914 Lord Kitchener issued his first call to arms for 100,000 volunteers, aged between 19 and 30, to enlist in the army.
General Henry Rawlinson initially suggested that men would be more willing to join up if they could serve with people they already knew.
Lord Derby was the first to test the idea in Liverpool.
Five thousand men joined the Liverpool Pals. By the end of the war almost three thousand of them had been killed." (
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A bronze plaque located near the memorial plaques gives the following information;
'The Liverpool Pals'
"Unveiled by
HRH The Earl of Wessex KG GCVQ
on 31st August 2014
Between August and November 1914 more than 6,000 men and boys
mainly from the business community of Liverpool, answered Lord Derby's call for volunteers to join his "Liverpool Pals" battalions, with some 1,050 enlisting at St George's Hall at the very first opportunity on 31st August 1914.
Four battalions, the 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th Battalions of the Kings Liverpool Regiment, were formed together with two reserve battalions, the 21st and 22nd.
Over 2800 men died as Liverpool Pals during the course of the Great War and the campaign in Russia. The remainder returned home, many wounded, to pick up the pieces of their lives.
This frieze tells the story of their euphoric inception at St George's Hall; their leaving of Liverpool in 1915; on to France and Flanders
and their battlefield experiences on the Western Front;
to the subdued homecoming of the survivors.
The final scene completes the cycle and shows St George's Hall
and the Cenotaph during present day Remembrance commemorations.
This memorial is a handsome tribute to the Liverpool Pals-the first
Pals battalions formed and the last to be stood down. May it stand for many years to come as a testimony to the memory of every Liverpool Pal, ensuring they are never forgotten.
The Liverpool Pals Memorial Fund would like to thank everybody
who helped to place this memorial in their home town."