Editing Hove (section)

===First World War===
[[File:Hove War Memorial (04).JPG|thumb|[[Hove War Memorial]] on Grand Avenue]]
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Over 600 men from Hove were killed in the First World War. After the armistice, the town established a war memorial committee to decide on commemoration of the dead. The committee commissioned [[Sir Edwin Lutyens]], the architect responsible for [[The Cenotaph, Whitehall|the Cenotaph]] on London's Whitehall which became the focus of [[national memory|national remembrance]] services. Lutyens proposed a similar cenotaph for Hove and went as far as constructing a wooden mock-up which was displayed on Hove Lawns but the committee rejected the design. The eventual result was a statue of Saint George atop a column, situated in the centre of Grand Avenue. The memorial does not contain the names of the fallen, which are instead recorded on a bronze plaque in [[Hove Library]].<ref>{{National Heritage List for England |num=1187556 |desc=Hove War Memorial|access-date=27 August 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Skelton|first1=Tim|last2=Gliddon|first2=Gerald|title=Lutyens and the Great War|year=2008|publisher=[[Frances Lincoln Publishers]]|location=London|isbn=9780711228788|pages=75, 169}}</ref>