The Cavalry Memorial

War memorial. 1924. By Capt. Adrian Jones.

MATERIALS: bronze sculptural group on Portland stone pedestal, with granite base and screen wall.

DESCRIPTION: the main group is an equestrian statue in bronze of a youthful St George in late-medieval armour, only slightly over life-size, with arm aloft and sword raised, mounted on a charger standing forcefully over a curled-up slain dragon with a broken lance driven into it. The statue stands on a rectangular base, whose upper part is also in bronze and carries a frieze depicting imperial cavalry, Indian and South African as well as British. The lower part of the base is of Portland stone, and carryies the inscription ERECTED / BY THE / CAVALRY OF THE EMPIRE / IN MEMORY OF / COMRADES / WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES / IN THE WAR / 1914 1919 / ALSO / IN THE WAR / 1939-1945 / AND ON ACTIVE SERVICE THEREAFTER

The statue and its plinth stands on a granite base, at the rear of which is a low granite screen wall carrying bronze plates listing the names of the Cavalry regiments engaged in the First World War, and also of the four Cavalry Field-Marshals - French, Haig, Allenby, and Robertson.

This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 10 February 2017.