World War 1 Monument,Newcastle

 

World War 1 Monument,Newcastle
This monument was built to commemorate, the raising of the World War I Commercial Battalions of the Northumberland Fusiliers by the Newcastle Chamber of Commerce and celebrate the safe return of his five sons from war.
The monument signifies the call to arms in 1914.
The life sized subjects are taken from the massing of the 5th Northumberland Fusiliers in April 1915, as they patriotically marched to war led by drummer boys through the Haymarket toward the central railway station and the front.

The day is depicted by well-wishers parents, wives and children, some cheering, some weeping. On the other side is the Newcastle coat of arms and figures of a Northumberland militiaman, 1674, right a fusilier, 1919.
This large and striking memorial consists of a rusticated granite screen on which is mounted a high relief depiction of soldiers responding to the call-up for the First World War, modelled virtually in the round from black bronze, and once described as one Britain’s finest sculptural Monuments.