Guildhall - war memorial

The War Memorial outside Salisbury Guildhall commemorates 459 local men who fell in the 1914-19 Great War. It was unveiled in 1922 by Lieutenant Tom Edwin Adlam, although Field Marshall Sir Douglas Haig was originally asked to carry out this duty.

Tom Adlam was one of Salisbury’s most famous war heroes. A recipient of the Victoria Cross, he was decorated for his bravery at the Battle of the Somme, where he enabled the British forces to capture a strong point at Thiepval in France. He was born in Waterloo Gardens in Salisbury in 1893, and died on Hayling Island in Hampshire in 1973.

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