WW1

The memorial was organised by a committee chaired by Sir Stephen Penfold, who had served as mayor of Folkestone twelve times from 1888 to 1918, including four years consecutively from 1914 to 1918. He was knighted in 1915 for his service in receiving refugees from Belgium after the outbreak of the war. His son Jeffrey was killed in at the Battle of Loos on 1916. The memorial was unveiled by Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 6th Earl of Radnor on 2 December 1922 and dedicated by the vicar of Folkestone, Peter Francis Tindall. A guard of honour was provided by the 1st battalion of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. Flowers were laid by the Mayor of Folkestone, by Colonel W J Dugan…

The memorial measures high and wide and comprises a bronze statue of a woman, said to represent brotherhood and reverence, standing on a tapering square stone pedestal with flanking stone walls, all on a stone base raised by two steps. The statue is bare-breasted, with its lower half robed. In her left hand, the figure holds aloft a cross with a union flag banner hanging from its shaft at half-mast, and a laurel wreath in her right hand. She faces towards the sea, and across to France beyond. The pedestal is of Cornish granite, with the inscription picked out in gold, "MAY THEIR / DEEDS BE / HELD IN / REVERENCE". The base of the central pedestal, and the flanking walls of granite to either…