Carlo Magnoni (1871- 1961), assistant to H.C. Fehr on the Leeds War Memorial, and the sculptor of this memorial after the designs of Sir Mark Sykes who died in the flu epidemic of 1919. The Waggoners Reserve was formed by Sykes before the war as a Territorial Force drawn from agricultural workers in the Yorkshire Wolds as an investment in distributions of food and materiel in any armed conflict. He himself spent the war as a Government Advisor on the Middle East. The iconography of the memorial is as crude and hilariously misjudged as any Raemaeker's cartoon. The Hunnish Hordes chased away by a sturdy Tommy at the Battle of the Marne (not shown here) is worth finding. The Monument's Inscription reads,
Several verses by Sykes in the local dialect are also inscribed, e.g.
The article reproduced above is from the magazine COURIER, date unknown c1958, and the essay is characteristic of the dull conservatism of the magazine over the decade and beyond.
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