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The Driver
Charles Sargeant Jagger had a passion for sculpture, but with the outbreak of war he gave up a scholarship to serve with the Artists’ Rifles. He was later in the Worcestershire Regiment at Gallipoli and on the Western Front, and was awarded a Military Cross for gallantry. Following the war he worked on many war memorials, including this one.
The “Driver” is holding a whip and bridles for two horses. He controlled two horses of a team of four or six. He is wearing breeches, spurs and a protective legging on his lower right leg (the driver always rode the left-hand horse of a pair, and the legging protected his leg from the second horse and the tow-bar of the wagon being pulled). He has a steel helmet for protection.
This statue is a re-casting of a figure on the Royal Artillery Memorial at Hyde Park Corner in London, which was built in 1925.
The Driver
Charles Sargeant Jagger had a passion for sculpture, but with the outbreak of war he gave up a scholarship to serve with the Artists’ Rifles. He was later in the Worcestershire Regiment at Gallipoli and on the Western Front, and was awarded a Military Cross for gallantry. Following the war he worked on many war memorials, including this one.
The “Driver” is holding a whip and bridles for two horses. He controlled two horses of a team of four or six. He is wearing breeches, spurs and a protective legging on his lower right leg (the driver always rode the left-hand horse of a pair, and the legging protected his leg from the second horse and the tow-bar of the wagon being pulled). He has a steel helmet for protection.
This statue is a re-casting of a figure on the Royal Artillery Memorial at Hyde Park Corner in London, which was built in 1925.