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Coventry War Memorial, the Glossary

Coventry War Memorial stands at the centre of War Memorial Park, to the south of the city of Coventry in England.^[1]

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Grade II* listed buildings in the West Midlands (county)
Monuments and memorials in the West Midlands (county)

Alfred Edward Sephton

Alfred Edward Sephton VC (19 April 1911 – 19 May 1941) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

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Art Deco

Art Deco, short for the French Arts décoratifs, is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in Paris in the 1910s (just before World War I), and flourished in the United States and Europe during the 1920s to early 1930s.

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Arthur Hutt

Arthur Hutt VC (12 February 1889 – 14 April 1954) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

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Bernard Montgomery

Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein (17 November 1887 – 24 March 1976), nicknamed "Monty", was a senior British Army officer who served in the First World War, the Irish War of Independence and the Second World War.

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Bishop of Coventry

The Bishop of Coventry is the ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Coventry in the Province of Canterbury.

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Bristol Cenotaph

Bristol Cenotaph is a war memorial at the north end of Magpie Park, in Bristol, erected in 1932. Coventry War Memorial and Bristol Cenotaph are World War I memorials in England and World War II memorials in England.

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British Expeditionary Force (World War I)

The British Expeditionary Force (BEF) was the six divisions the British Army sent to the Western Front during the First World War.

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Charles Parker (VC)

Charles Edward Haydon Parker VC (10 March 1870 – 9 August 1918) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross (VC), the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

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Christopher Cocksworth

Christopher John Cocksworth (born 12 January 1959) is a Church of England bishop in the open evangelical tradition who served as Bishop of Coventry from 2008 to 2023.

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Coombe Abbey

Coombe Abbey (alternatively styled as 'Combe Abbey') is a hotel which has been developed from a historic grade I listed building and former country house, itself converted out of a Cistercian abbey.

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Courtaulds

Courtaulds was a United Kingdom-based manufacturer of fabric, clothing, artificial fibres, and chemicals.

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Coventry

Coventry is a cathedral city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands county, in England, on the River Sherbourne.

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Coventry City Council

Coventry City Council is the local authority for the city of Coventry in the West Midlands, England.

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Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig

Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, (19 June 1861 – 29 January 1928) was a senior officer of the British Army.

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Fagus sylvatica

Fagus sylvatica, the European beech or common beech, is a large, graceful deciduous tree in the beech family with smooth silvery-gray bark, large leaf area, and a short trunk with low branches.

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Foleshill

Foleshill is a suburb in the north of Coventry in the West Midlands of England.

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For the Fallen

"For the Fallen" is a poem written by Laurence Binyon.

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Grade II* listed buildings in Coventry

There are 24 Grade II* listed buildings in the City of Coventry. Coventry War Memorial and Grade II* listed buildings in Coventry are grade II* listed buildings in the West Midlands (county).

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Grade II* listed war memorials in England

There are 137 Grade II* listed war memorials in England, out of over 4,000 listed war memorials.

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Gulf War

The Gulf War was an armed conflict between Iraq and a 42-country coalition led by the United States.

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Hans Renold

Hans Renold (31 July 1852 - 2 May 1943) was a Swiss/British engineer, inventor and industrialist in Britain, who founded the Renold manufacturing textile-chain making business in 1879, and with Alexander Hamilton Church is credited for introducing scientific management also known as Taylorism to England.

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Henry Tandey

Private Henry James Tandey VC, DCM, MM (born Tandy, 30 August 1891 – 20 December 1977) was a British recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

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Laurence Binyon

Robert Laurence Binyon, CH (10 August 1869 – 10 March 1943) was an English poet, dramatist and art scholar.

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Listed building

In the United Kingdom, a listed building is a structure of particular architectural and/or historic interest deserving of special protection.

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Liverpool Cenotaph

Liverpool Cenotaph stands on St George's Plateau, to the east of St George's Hall in Liverpool, England. Coventry War Memorial and Liverpool Cenotaph are World War I memorials in England and World War II memorials in England.

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The National Lottery Community Fund, legally named the Big Lottery Fund, is a non-departmental public body responsible for distributing funds raised by the National Lottery for "good causes".

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National Lottery Heritage Fund

The National Lottery Heritage Fund, formerly the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), distributes a share of National Lottery funding, supporting a wide range of heritage projects across the United Kingdom.

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Portland stone

Portland stone is a limestone geological formation (formally named the Portland Stone Formation) dating to the Tithonian age of the Late Jurassic that is quarried on the Isle of Portland in Dorset, England.

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Reinforced concrete

Reinforced concrete, also called ferroconcrete, is a composite material in which concrete's relatively low tensile strength and ductility are compensated for by the inclusion of reinforcement having higher tensile strength or ductility.

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Remembrance Sunday

Remembrance Sunday is held in the United Kingdom as a day to commemorate the contribution of British and Commonwealth military and civilian servicemen and women in the two World Wars and later conflicts. It is held on the second Sunday in November (the Sunday nearest to 11 November, Armistice Day, the anniversary of the end of hostilities in World War I in 1918).

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River Sherbourne

The River Sherbourne is a river that flows under the centre of the city of Coventry, in the West Midlands, in England.

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River Sowe

The River Sowe is a river in Warwickshire and West Midlands, England.

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Stivichall

Stivichall or Styvechale is a suburb of the city of Coventry, West Midlands, England.

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T. F. Tickner

Thomas Francis Tickner (1864-1924) was a British architect.

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Verdun tree

The Verdun trees are oak and horse chestnut trees planted in the United Kingdom in the aftermath of the First World War.

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War memorial

A war memorial is a building, monument, statue, or other edifice to celebrate a war or victory, or (predominating in modern times) to commemorate those who died or were injured in a war.

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War Memorial Park, Coventry

The War Memorial Park is a large park of about 48.5 hectares in southern Coventry, England. Coventry War Memorial and War Memorial Park, Coventry are monuments and memorials in the West Midlands (county), World War I memorials in England and World War II memorials in England.

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William Beesley

William Beesley VC (5 October 1895 – 23 September 1966) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

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William, Prince of Wales

William, Prince of Wales (William Arthur Philip Louis; born 21 June 1982), is the heir apparent to the British throne.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coventry_War_Memorial

Coventry War Memorial, the Glossary

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Grade II* listed buildings in the West Midlands (county)

Monuments and memorials in the West Midlands (county)

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