Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Serviceman / Servicewoman
- District
- Liverpool
- Town
- Liverpool
- County
- Merseyside
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- Egypt and the Sudan (1882-1899)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 16th December 1887
Attended by: VISCOUNT GARNET JOSEPH WOLSELEY
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 15835
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Current location
St George's Square
Lime Street
Liverpool
Liverpool
Merseyside
L1 1JJ
England
OS Grid Ref: SJ 34944 90592
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Cast bronze statue mounted on a sandstone plinth on the South-East corner of St George's Hall. The Major General is portrayed in tropical uniform with his sword in his right hand and his left hand raised calling his troops forward. He is stood right foot forward on a rocky outcrop, with an African shield beneath his left foot.
- Inscription
- MAJOR GENERAL/ WILLIAM EARLE CB CSI/ BORN IN LIVERPOOL, 1833;/ KILLED IN COMMAND OF/ HER MAJESTY'S TROOPS/ AT THE BATTLE OF KIRBEKAN/ IN THE SOUDAN, 1885/ ERECTED BY PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION/ CB BIRCH, ARA, SC
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Earle, William
See details - Commemorations
- Egypt and the Sudan (1882-1899)
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 0
Died: 1
Exact count: no
Information shown: Rank, forename, surname, honours, place and year of birth, manner, place, country, and year of death, additional
Order of information: As above
- Egypt and the Sudan (1882-1899)
- Components
- Figure
Measurements: height 2740MM
Materials: Bronze - Pedestal
Measurements: height 3740MM
Materials: Stone - Darley Dale
- Figure
- Listing information
- STATUE OF MAJOR GENERAL EARLE ATTACHED TO SOUTH EAST ANGLE OF ST GEORGE'S HALL
- Grade II
- This memorial is protected, and listed on the National Heritage List for England maintained by Historic England. View list entry
- More about listing and the protection of historic places can be found on the Historic England website
- Condition
- Major General William Earle C.B..C.S.I
- WMO ID: 155185
- Condition: Fair [last updated on 01-09-2014]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- History
- Grade II listed.
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Sponsorship
- Public
- Responsibility
- Liverpool City Council
- Reference
- Public Sculpture of Britain Liverpool (1997) pp.267-268
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