Portsmouth Naval Memorial

Co-created by Henry Poole
Designed by Robert Stodart Lorimer

Object class: sculpture

Object type: memorial

Description: 'After the First World War, an appropriate way had to be found of commemorating those members of the Royal Navy who had no known grave, the majority of deaths having occurred at sea where no permanent memorial could be provided. An Admiralty committee recommended that the three manning ports in Great Britain - Chatham, Plymouth and Portsmouth - should each have an identical memorial of unmistakable naval form, an obelisk, which would serve as a leading mark for shipping. The memorials were designed by Sir Robert Lorimer, who had already carried out a considerable amount of work for the Commission, with sculpture by Henry Poole.'

(See site of the Commonwealth war Graves Commission: http://www.cwgc.org/search/cemetery_details.aspx?cemetery=142000&mode=1 accessed 15 October 2010)

Citing this record

'Portsmouth Naval Memorial', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/object.php?id=msib2_1210341570, accessed 23 May 2022]