First World War memorial on Gibraltar’s Line Wall Road with cannons.
The Gibraltar War Memorial is a First World War monument on Line Wall Road in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. Sculpted from Carrara marble by Spanish artist Jose Piquet Catoli and unveiled in 1923, it stands beside memorial tablets and two Russian guns captured during the Crimean War.
The Gibraltar War Memorial is a First World War monument on Line Wall Road in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar, at the southern end of the Iberian Peninsula. Also known as the British War Memorial, it commemorates the fallen of the conflict, specifically officers and seamen of the Gibraltar Straits Patrol who gave their lives for their king and empire in the Great War, as stated in its inscription. The monument was sculpted by Jose Piquet Catoli of Barcelona, Spain, using Carrara marble. It was unveiled by the Governor of Gibraltar, Sir Charles Monro, 1st Baronet (1860–1929), during a ceremony on 27 September 1923. The memorial stands on an esplanade and steps west of Gibraltar City Hall and John Mackintosh Square. Several inscribed tablets surround it, including one dedicated by Gibraltarian residents in the Argentine Republic to the heroes of Gibraltar and the Straits Patrol, and another recording that the esplanade and steps were constructed in 1921 during the governorship of General Sir Horace Lockwood Smith-Dorrien as a memorial of his concern for the people’s welfare. Nearby are two Russian guns captured during the Crimean War (1854–1856); an inscription records that four such guns, captured in the Crimea, were presented to Gibraltar by the British Government in 1858.
