The Morecambe and Heysham War Memorial stands on the

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, England.''Morecambe and Heysham War Memorial.''
United Kingdom National Inventory of War Memorials. UKNIWM Ref: 3332. Retrieved 16 August 2012. It has two inscriptions in black lettering, after which are listed the names of those remembered

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

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. The war memorial, made of bronze and granite, was completed in 1921 and designed by

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. A bronze lion sits atop a stepped base. On 20 January 1993 the monument was registered as a Grade II structure at

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.''War Memorial, Morecambe.''
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Lancaster Memorials: Chapter 3 Morecambe and Heysham War Memorial (pages 57-62)

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