The Homecoming: The War Memorial Movement in Cambridge, England

Abstract

which is not easily done as cars, taxis and buses flow in six different directions around it, you may well become puzzled. He is in the uniform of a private, but he is every inch the legendary public school or university subaltern; and though evidently a student, he has been placed a long way from Cambridge's academic precinct. Except that he is walking away from the station you might think that he was going off to the war, eager for the great adventure, carrying the poems of Rupert Brooke in his haversack, rather than returning from it. The sculptor, you then notice, has added certain details to indicate that the war is over, and won. While the bare-headed young man holds his own helmet, another one, which has once been on a German head, is slung on his back as a trophy. You see floral emblems of triumph: the hand carrying the helmet also holds a rose; another rose, thrown to him, has fallen at his feet, and a laurel wreath is flung over the barrel of the rifle held in his other hand, the leaves encircling the vanquished enemy's helmet. Having taken in all that, you may still find it difficult to see this statue as a representation of a man who has been through the Great War. The inscription might more truly say WHO SERVED AND SURVIVED UNSCATHED IN BODY OR MIND.

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