Herbert Tyson Smith

Tyson Smith attended Liverpool College of Art where he studied plaster and stone carving and clay modeling.

Tyson Smith was particularly interested in the early artistic works of Egypt and Greece.

""Mors Ianva Vitae/In grateful remembrance/of the Officers and Men of/the 22nd Cheshire Regiment/Who laid down their lives in/The service of the Country/1939-1945""In proud memory of the Officers/Non-Commissioned Officers and Men of/The Cheshire (Earl of Chester's) Yeomanry/who gave their lives for their Country/in the Great War 1939–1945""In proud memory of/Wion de Malpas Egerton/DSO RN (Retired)/who gave his life for his Country/in the Battle of the Atlantic while/serving as Commodore of Convoys/Born 16 April 1879 Died 1st January 1943""In memory of/Francis John MacGunn/BA BLitt Oxon/Lecturer in History/ in the University of/Glasgow Captain 6th/Battn The Queen's Own/Cameron Highlanders/who fell in the Battle/of Loos September the/26th 1915 Aged 27 Years/I will lift up mine eyes/Unto the hills"Below the name panels another relief has depictions of the emblems of the Army, Navy and the Merchant Navy.

[17][18] "FOR FREEDOM LOVING BRITONS, THE BELOVED ONES DIED FOR US""TO THE MEMORY/OF THE MEN OF/FLEETWOOD WHO/GAVE THEIR LIVES/FOR THEIR COUNTRY/1914-1918/AND IN GRATEFUL/REMEMBRANCE OF/THOSE WHO SHARED/ITS DANGER""TO YOU FROM FAILING HANDS WE THROW THE TORCH, BE YOURS TO HOLD IT HIGH.

MAN MUST STILL STRIVE, PRINCIPLES DO NOT APPLY THEMSELVES""1939–1945 TO THE MEMORY OF THOSE WHO CONTINUED THE FIGHT FOR FREEDOM AND CHRISTIAN WAY OF LIFE/(NAMES)""1914 In Arduis Fidelis 1919/ In honoured memory of/Members of the Liverpool/Medical Institution who gave/Their lives for their Country/(Names)/The gift of W.Thelwall Thomas/President 1918–1919"In Memory of/Those old boys of Merchant Taylors' School, Crosby/who gave their lives in the Great War 1914–1919 (Names)""TELL BRITAIN YE WHO MARK THIS MONUMENT""FAITHFUL TO HER WE FELL AND REST CONTENT"[a]"TO FAMOUS MEN ALL EARTH IS SEPULCHRE""THEIR PORTION IS WITH THE ETERNAL""THEY DIED/THAT WE MIGHT LIVE/WE LIVE/ONLY AS WE/SAFEGUARD THE IDEAS FOR WHICH THEY DIED/FREEDOM JUSTICE MERCY/SO LET US LIVE/THAT WE MAY SHARE/WITH THEM THE LIFE/ETERNAL""REMEMBER/THAT THE MEN/WHOSE NAMES/LIVE ON THESE WALLS/DIED/IN YOUTH OR PRIME/THAT FUTURE GENERATIONS/MIGHT INHERIT/A HAPPIER WORLD/AND A HUMAN SOCIETY/MORE RIGHTEOUS/AND MORE LOVING/THAN THESE BRAVE MEN/AND THEIR GENERATION KNEW""LOOK/UPWARD/STANDING/MUTE/SALUTE""IN HONOUR/OF THOSE MEMBERS/OF THE LIVERPOOL/POST OFFICE STAFF/WHO FELL IN THE/GREAT WAR/1914-1918/They died for us:/they left this blessed fortune of the light/and gave themselves to darkness,/to our love returning never./But lo presiding over us/Like stars over the night/Quiet and lovely and supreme/ lives their death forever/Lascelles Abercrombie""These officers and men of the Merchant Navy died while serving with the Royal Navy and have no grave but the sea 1939–1945""Struck down from the sky by the firebrands of the enemy and partly destroyed on 4th May 1941 restored with dutiful affection in the year 1951"[42] Tyson Smith is buried in Allerton Cemetery in Liverpool.

Tyson Smith’s reliefs on the sides of the Liverpool Cenotaph