Burton upon Trent War Memorial

Councillor and mayor of the county borough of Burton upon Trent, George Hill, first suggested that the borough install a war memorial on 9 November 1918, shortly before the Armistice of 11 November 1918 which ended the First World War. The borough established a War Memorial Committee and a public subscription to raise funds. The subscription, which included sizable contributions from the local Bass and Worthington breweries, raised more than £22,000, of which £5,000 was allocated for the design and construction of the memorial and the remainder distributed to returning local war veterans. The borough's town clerk had previously been town clerk of Hull, where the sculptor Henry Charles Fehr…

The monument stands in the town's Memorial Gardens, off Lichfield Street, in front of Burton & South Derbyshire College. 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 m tall and is shown stood atop a globe holding a downwards-pointing sword in her right hand and a laurel wreath in her left. Saint George is depicted in a naturalistic manner similar to how he appears in Fehr's memorials in Leeds and Colchester. The memorial stands on a three-stepped stone base on top of a wider stone terrace, surrounded by a low metal chain fence.