Birkenhead War Memorial

Among the designs of which he approved was that of Lionel Budden, one of his former students, who was then a senior lecturer at the School of Architecture.

The assessor for the competition was Major Gilbert Fraser, President of the Liverpool Architectural Society.

Budden appointed H. Tyson Smith as sculptor for the figures on the memorial, which was made by Joseph Davies of Birkenhead and H. A. Clegg and Sons of Chester.

[1][a] Initially it had been planned for the memorial to stand on the north side of Hamilton Square, which was vacant.

[3] The memorial was unveiled on 1 July 1925 by Sir Richard H. K. Butler, and the ceremony was attended by about 20,000 people.

On the shorter sides, above the panels, are carvings of female figures, one holding a wreath, the other a medallion.

Below the panels on the long sides are circular plaques carved with crests of the forces involved in the wars.