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by Aldred Turner 1917 The memorial originally stood in The Market Place, Northampton but was moved in 1937 to the Garden of Remembrance (Memorial Garden), Northampton. The memorial is in the form of a robed female figure representing the Goddess of Fame, holding a wreath in her left hand and a staff raised in her right. The figure stands on a tapering pillar which in turn rests on a three stepped base. On the front face of the pillar is a bust of Colonel Mobbs with a wreath behind his head. On the front of the memorial is a bust of Lt. Col Mobbs; on the left side is a relief panel depicting a rugby match, and on the right a battlefield scene. Edgar Roberts Mobbs DSO (1882 - 1917) was an English rugby union footballer who played for and captained Northampton R.F.C. and England. He played as a three quarter. After initially being turned down as too old to join the army in World War 1, Edgar raised his own "sportsmans" battalion of 250 sportsmen (also known as Mobbs' Own) for the Northamptonshire regiment. He rose to command his battalion with rank of Lt. Col. Edgar was killed in battle, in July 1917, at Zillebeke during the Third Battle of Ypres, whilst attacking a machine gun post. His body has never been found, so his name is on the Menin Gate memorial. In 1921 the first Mobb's Memorial Match was held between the East Midlands and the Barbarians at Franklin's Gardens and has continued ever since. |
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