Commonwealth war memorial at busy Gibraltar crossroads, unveiled Armistice Day.
The Gibraltar Cross of Sacrifice is a Commonwealth war memorial at the junction of Winston Churchill Avenue and Devil’s Tower Road, west of North Front Cemetery in Gibraltar. Designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield in 1917, it was erected by the Royal Engineers and unveiled on Armistice Day 1922.
The Gibraltar Cross of Sacrifice is a war memorial in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. It stands west of North Front Cemetery at the junction of Winston Churchill Avenue and Devil’s Tower Road, in northern Gibraltar, near a sundial roundabout. The monument was originally within North Front Cemetery, but after the Second World War it was rebuilt and relocated to its current fenced site, together with the Gibraltar Memorial. Paths connect the two memorials to a central inscribed panel. The Cross of Sacrifice was designed in 1917 by Sir Reginald Blomfield for the Imperial War Graves Commission, later the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Examples of his Cross of Sacrifice design are found in numerous Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemeteries. The Gibraltar cross was constructed of Cornish granite, with bronze, and erected by the Royal Engineers for the Commission after the First World War. It was unveiled on Armistice Day 1922. A British Pathé film of the dedication ceremony is described as the first motion picture made in Gibraltar. The memorial honours the dead of World War I, and is maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
