William Reid Dick - Main Works

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Rickmansworth War Memorial	Rickmansworth Hertfordshire	Part of Rickmansworth's original war memorial is now in the churchyard of St Mary's Church in Church Street and the other part is in Three Rivers Council Office Gardens. Originally what was a cenotaph-type structure was located in Ebury Road but when major changes were made to that road and the junction with the Uxbridge Road in order to create the Ebury Roundabout, the main structure was moved to St Mary's and the Lion and Eagle which had stood on top of that structure was moved to Three Rivers Council Office Gardens. The memorial in St Mary's churchyard is inscribed "IN PROUD AND GRATEFUL MEMORY / OF MEN OF THIS / DISTRICT WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES / IN THE GREAT WAR /1914 / 1918 / ROLL OF HONOUR / (Names) / ROLL OF HONOUR / 1939-1945 AND SUBSEQUENT CONFLICTS" inscription It has a seated woman at both the north and south faces, one symbolizing the sorrow and despair of 1914, and the other the hopeful triumph of 1918. It was originally designed to have a pyramid cap on top, but this design was amended to include the statue of a lion with its paws holding down an eagle. A pyramid cap was finally substituted in June 1968. 194 names are listed on the cenotaph these of men who were killed in the First World War with a further 82 names of men killed in the Second World War. The entire memorial was first moved in 1940 to avoid damage from German bombing and reinstated in 1951 but a further dismantling was necessary in 1968 when the move from Ebury Road took place. At Northway the inscription reads "THIS STATUE SCULPTURED BY / SIR WILLIAM REID DICK RA IN 1920 / AND DONATED BY THE PEOPLE OF RICKMANSWORTH / AS PART OF THE WAR MEMORIAL FOR THE / 1914-18 GREAT WAR ORIGINALLY STOOD IN EBURY ROAD. / ON 15TH APRIL 1978 IT WAS RE-ERECTED HERE / BY THE 1ST RICKMANSWORTH SCOUT GROUP / AS A QUEEN ELIZABETH II SILVER JUBILEE PROJECT / FOR RICKMANSWORTH / THIS PLAQUE WAS PRESENTED BY THE RICKMANSWORTH FINE ARTS SOCIETY" inscription The memorial in Northway comprises a brick plinth on which Reid Dick's sculptured group of a lion with its paws holding down an eagle is placed.

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Rickmansworth War Memorial

Rickmansworth Hertfordshire

Part of Rickmansworth's original war memorial is now in the churchyard of St Mary's Church in Church Street and the other part is in Three Rivers Council Office Gardens. Originally what was a cenotaph-type structure was located in Ebury Road but when major changes were made to that road and the junction with the Uxbridge Road in order to create the Ebury Roundabout, the main structure was moved to St Mary's and the Lion and Eagle which had stood on top of that structure was moved to Three Rivers Council Office Gardens. The memorial in St Mary's churchyard is inscribed

"IN PROUD AND GRATEFUL MEMORY / OF MEN OF THIS / DISTRICT WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES / IN THE GREAT WAR /1914 / 1918 / ROLL OF HONOUR / (Names) / ROLL OF HONOUR / 1939-1945 AND SUBSEQUENT CONFLICTS" inscription

It has a seated woman at both the north and south faces, one symbolizing the sorrow and despair of 1914, and the other the hopeful triumph of 1918. It was originally designed to have a pyramid cap on top, but this design was amended to include the statue of a lion with its paws holding down an eagle. A pyramid cap was finally substituted in June 1968. 194 names are listed on the cenotaph these of men who were killed in the First World War with a further 82 names of men killed in the Second World War. The entire memorial was first moved in 1940 to avoid damage from German bombing and reinstated in 1951 but a further dismantling was necessary in 1968 when the move from Ebury Road took place. At Northway the inscription reads

"THIS STATUE SCULPTURED BY / SIR WILLIAM REID DICK RA IN 1920 / AND DONATED BY THE PEOPLE OF RICKMANSWORTH / AS PART OF THE WAR MEMORIAL FOR THE / 1914-18 GREAT WAR ORIGINALLY STOOD IN EBURY ROAD. / ON 15TH APRIL 1978 IT WAS RE-ERECTED HERE / BY THE 1ST RICKMANSWORTH SCOUT GROUP / AS A QUEEN ELIZABETH II SILVER JUBILEE PROJECT / FOR RICKMANSWORTH / THIS PLAQUE WAS PRESENTED BY THE RICKMANSWORTH FINE ARTS SOCIETY" inscription

The memorial in Northway comprises a brick plinth on which Reid Dick's sculptured group of a lion with its paws holding down an eagle is placed.

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