Description:This postcard view shows the dedication and unveiling of the Stafford Borough War Memorial in Victoria Square in 1922. The Memorial consists of a soldier standing on the top of a pedestal which lists names of soldiers lost in the First World War. The memorial is engraved with the words: "The Great Task Accomplished, 1914-1918".
Sculpted by Joseph Whitehead & Sons, the Borough War Memorial was unveiled on 28 October 1922 in memory of the Stafford men who lost their lives in the First World War. The statue of a soldier originally faced the railway station, from which many of the soldiers had departed to fight. After the building of the new Crown Courts the soldier was turned to face St. Mary's Church. In the background can be seen standing headstones, later moved when the churchyard was landscaped as a Garden of Remembrance.
On the lower right of the picture there is an inscription confirming that this picture was taken by Charles Fowke who was based at the Victoria Road studio from about 1904, at first in partnership with Paul Weiss (Wise). The partnership was dissolved in 1916 and Fowke carried on until about 1937. Bertram Sinkinson was a celebrated Stafford photographer, who took over the premises of C.E. Fowke at 15 Victoria Road, Stafford in 1936-7. Sinkinson was later president of the Royal Photographic Society, 1953-1955. He was awarded an OBE in 1957 and was Mayor of Stafford in 1959 and died in 1985.