Salford

Cenotaph surmounted by the sphinx of the Lancashire Fusiliers. The sphinx is on pedestal on which is carved the single word EGYPT. The Rose of Lancaster decorates each corner at the top of the cenotapth. The side panels feature a large carved wreath and the names of campaigns in which the regiment took part.

Salford lost some 5,000 men from the eleven battalions it provided for the Lancahire Fusiliers in the First World War. The raising of a memorial to honour the dead was carried out by a committee chaired by Colonel A. J. Bailey. The appeal for funds was for both a war memorial and to provide assistance to wounded soldiers and the dependents of those who had died. In all some £5,000 was raised, leaving, after the costs of the memorial had been paid, £3,275 for the Lancashire Fusiliers Compassionate Fund. The memorial, in the form of a cenotaph, was designed by the long established Manchester firm, J. and H. Patteson. The selection of a suitable site proved difficult and several sites were rejected - some in the city's principal parks - before Albion Place on the Crescent was settled upon. The memorial was unveiled by the Earl of Derby in July 1922. In his speech he emphasised the 'spirit of Lancashire' exemplified in those men who had who had enlisted and fought. The Lancashire Fusiliers' Roll of Honour contained 13,549 names. Sir Montague Barlow MP handed over the memorial to the Mayor of Salford. The regiment's enormous losses were also remembered in the memorial, designed by Lutyens, in Bury. In the mid-1980s there was discussion about moving the memorial to Swinton, in part because of plans to convert the fire station into an exhibition centre. In the end the memorial was left, but the area around it, which had become used for car parking, was landscaped to both protect and preserve the dignity of the memorial.