Lions of the Great War
The Lions of the Great War is a war memorial in Smethwick, in Sandwell in the West Midlands of England, dedicated to the memory of the Sikh soldiers from the British Indian Army who fought in the First World War.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Work of art
- Artwork_type: statue
- Description: war memorial in Smethwick, Sandwell, England
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Smethwick Rolfe Street railway station and Guru Nanak Gurdwara Smethwick.
Smethwick Rolfe Street railway station
Railway station
Photo: David Stowell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Smethwick Rolfe Street is one of two railway stations serving the town of Smethwick, West Midlands, England. It is situated on the Rugby–Birmingham–Stafford line 3¼ miles north west of Birmingham New Street. Smethwick Rolfe Street railway station is situated 340 feet northeast of Lions of the Great War.
Guru Nanak Gurdwara Smethwick
Gurdwara
Photo: Manhut, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Guru Nanak Gurdwara Smethwick is a Sikh gurdwara in Smethwick, in Sandwell, near Birmingham in the West Midlands of England. It was established in October 1958 in a former church building which had been bought earlier in the year at a cost of £11,600.
Smethwick Library
Library
Smethwick Library is situated 520 feet northwest of Lions of the Great War.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Smethwick and Cape Hill.
Smethwick
Town
Photo: Row17, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Smethwick is an industrial town in the Sandwell district, in the county of the West Midlands, England. It lies 4 miles west of Birmingham city centre. Historically it was in Staffordshire and then Worcestershire before being placed into West Midlands county.
Cape Hill
Town
Cape Hill is an area of Smethwick, in the Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell, West Midlands, England, 2+3⁄4 miles west of Birmingham City Centre. The area includes Waterloo Road near Shireland Collegiate Academy and the High Street near Victoria Park; it borders Birmingham at the A457 Dudley Road.
Londonderry
Neighborhood
Photo: David Stowell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Londonderry is a residential area of Oldbury and Smethwick, on the B4182 road, in the Sandwell Metropolitan Borough, in the English county of West Midlands.
Lions of the Great War
- Categories: war memorial and tourism
- Location: Sandwell, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.49573° or 52° 29′ 45″ northLongitude
-1.9706° or 1° 58′ 14″ westInception
2018Open location code
9C4WF2WH+7QOpenStreetMap ID
node 11435443523OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=artworkOpenStreetMap attribute
artwork_type=statueWikidata ID
Q60795089
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In Other Languages
“Lions of the Great War” goes by many names.
- Western Panjabi: “لواینس آف گرکٹ وار”
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Highlights include Smethwick Youth & Community Centre and Smethwick Rolfe Street.
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