Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry War Memorial

This memorial commemorates the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry and was designed by Leonard Stanford Merrifield, erected in 1924 to honour those lost in the First World War. The memorial is constructed from cast bronze set upon a Cornish granite plinth.

The centerpiece is a bronze statue of an infantryman wearing 1907 pattern webbing and a Mk 1 helmet, and carrying a small box respirator on his chest. The figure holds a rifle with a fixed bayonet and a Mills bomb, with the pin removed, held in his right hand, posed in a balanced, ready position as if about to throw the bomb, and sculpted to appear as if standing in mud. The statue is signed L. S. MERRIFIELD. Sc. 1922. A. B. BURTON. FOUNDER.

The statue stands on an octagonal, moulded Cornish granite plinth with a six-stepped base. The northwest face features a bronze cast of the Duke of Cornwall’s coat of arms, encircled by a laurel wreath and displaying the motto "ONE AND ALL." This face is inscribed with the words "ERECTED / BY THE / DCLI / TO THEIR / GLORIOUS DEAD / 255 OFFICERS / 4027 OTHER RANKS / 1914-1919." The remaining faces each bear a bronze laurel wreath and the number of a battalion, detailing locations of service: I – France & Flanders (1914-1917), Italy (1917-1918), France & Flanders (1918-1919); IV – India (1914-1916), Southern Arabia (Aden) (1916-1917), Egypt and Palestine (1917-1919); VI – France & Flanders (1915-1918); VIII – France & Flanders (1915), Macedonia (1915-1919); X – France & Flanders (1916-1919); V – France & Flanders (1916-1919); II – France and Flanders (1914-1915), Macedonia (1915-1919).

To the south and east, the memorial is flanked by coped granite kerbs inlaid with laurel wreaths and displaying the regimental badges, one for each battalion, commemorating service and battle honours. The terminal piers of the flanking walls are inscribed “IN PROUD MEMORY OF THEIR COMRADES WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES 1939-45 / AND ALL MEMBERS OF THE REGIMENT WHO WERE SERVING WITH OTHER CORPS 1939-45.”