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The Morecambe and Heysham War Memorial stands on the Promenade at Morecambe, Lancashire, England.

It has two inscriptions in black lettering, after which are listed the names of those remembered

1914–1919
TO THE HONOURED MEMORY OF
THE MEN OF MORECAMBE
WHO FELL IN WORLD WAR I
THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE

1939–1945
TO THE HONOURED MEMORY OF
THE MEN OF MORECAMBE AND HEYSHAM
WHO FELL IN WORLD WAR II

The memorial remembers the 216 men who died in the First World War, the 180 in the Second World War and the single man who was killed in the Korean War.

The war memorial, made of bronze and granite, was completed in 1921 and designed by Thomas Hayton Mawson. A bronze lion sits atop a stepped base. On 20 January 1993 the monument was registered as a Grade II structure at British Listed Buildings.

See also

• Listed buildings in Morecambe

References

1. ^ Morecambe and Heysham War Memorial. United Kingdom National Inventory of War Memorials. UKNIWM Ref: 3332. Retrieved 16 August 2012.
2. War Memorial, Morecambe. British Listed Buildings. Reference 391859. Retrieved 16 August 2012.

External links

• Lancaster Memorials: Chapter 3 Morecambe and Heysham War Memorial (pages 57-62)
• Morecambe Visitor and Heysham Chronicle: Obituaries 1914-198 War
• Morecambe and Heysham War Memorial - photo and map

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Grade I	Ashton Hall Ashton Memorial Borwick Hall Burrow Hall Claughton Hall Cockersand Abbey Cockersand Abbey chapter house Hornby Castle Judges' Lodgings Lancaster Castle Lancaster Priory Lune Aqueduct Old Rectory St Oswald's Vicarage Thurnham Hall   Churches   Gressingham: St John the Evangelist Heysham: St Patrick St Peter Hornby: St Margaret Melling: St Wilfrid Tunstall: St John the Baptist
Grade II*	Capernwray Hall Custom House Lancaster City Museum Lancaster Moor Hospital Lancaster Town Hall Leighton Hall Loyn Bridge Midland Hotel Morecambe Winter Gardens Quernmore Park Royal Albert Hospital Skerton Bridge Thurland Castle Whittington Hall   Churches   Arkholme: St John the Baptist Bolton-le-Sands: Holy Trinity Brookhouse: St Paul Cockerham: St Michael Lancaster: Cathedral Ripley School St John the Evangelist Over Kellet: St Cuthbert Overton: St Helen Silverdale: St John Tatham: St James the Less Whittington: St Michael
Grade II	Abbeystead House Cockerham Vicarage Conder Bridge The Dukes Greaves Park Hotel Grand Theatre Grizedale Bridge Hornby Village Institute Lancaster Carriage and Wagon Works Lancaster (Greaves) railway station Lancaster Moor Hospital Lancaster railway station Lancaster Royal Grammar School Leck Hall Lindeth Tower Littledale Hall Morecambe and Heysham War Memorial Queen Victoria Memorial The Storey The Stork Wennington Hall Windermere House   Churches   Borwick: St Mary Capernwray: Chapel Claughton: St Chad Dolphinholme: St Mark Ellel: St John Glasson: Christ Halton-on-Lune: St Wilfrid Lancaster: Christ Cemetery St Paul, Scotforth St Thomas Leck: St Peter Morecambe: Holy Trinity St John the Divine St Laurence Over Wyresdale: Christ Quernmore: St Peter Slyne-with-Hest St Luke Tatham: Good Shepherd Warton: St Oswald Yealand Conyers: St John the Evangelist St Mary
Unlisted	Carlisle Bridge Carnforth MPD Carnforth War Memorial Escowbeck The Gregson Centre Greyhound Bridge HM Prison Lancaster Farms Hazelwood Hall Heysham nuclear power station Lancaster bus station Langthwaite Filter House Lune Millennium Bridge Phoenix Street drill hall Plover Scar Lighthouse Stone Jetty Three Brothers   Churches   Aughton: St Saviour Lancaster: St Michael, Lancaster Moor Hospital King's Community Morecambe: Clark Street Congregational St Barnabas St Christopher, Bare Wray: Holy Trinity
Demolished	Aldcliffe Hall Central Pier, Morecambe Cockerham Priory Hornby Priory Lancaster Friary Lancaster Roman Fort North Western Hotel Over Burrow Roman Fort Old Loyne Bridge West End Pier, Morecambe Wyresdale Abbey
Listed buildings in	Arkholme-with-Cawood Bolton-le-Sands Borwick Burrow-with-Burrow Cantsfield Carnforth Caton-with-Littledale Claughton Cockerham Ellel Gressingham Halton-with-Aughton Heaton-with-Oxcliffe Heysham Hornby-with-Farleton Ireby Lancaster Leck Melling-with-Wrayton Middleton Morecambe Nether Kellet Over Kellet Over Wyresdale Overton Priest Hutton Quernmore Roeburndale Scotforth Silverdale Slyne-with-Hest Tatham Thurnham Tunstall Warton Wennington Whittington Wray-with-Botton Yealand Conyers Yealand Redmayne

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• World War I memorials in England
• World War II memorials in England
• Monuments and memorials in Lancashire
• Buildings and structures in Morecambe
• Grade II listed buildings in Lancashire
• 1921 sculptures
• Grade II listed monuments and memorials