Burton upon Trent War Memorial

The memorial was commissioned by the county borough of Burton upon Trent from the sculptor Henry Charles Fehr shortly after the end of the First World War.

A suggestion from the public to replace the flanking figures with depictions of a North Staffordshire Regiment soldier and a sailor were rejected by the committee.

After the Second World War a small bronze plaque was added to the memorial, extending its dedication to cover that conflict.

[1] The monument stands in the town's Memorial Gardens, off Lichfield Street, in front of Burton & South Derbyshire College.

[3] The principal focus is the winged figure of Victory atop a Portland stone pedestal; the goddess was depicted by Fehr in many of his other war memorials.

Cast in bronze, she stands 2.25 metres (7 ft 5 in) tall and is shown stood atop a globe holding a downwards-pointing sword in her right hand and a laurel wreath in her left.