The reverse of the War Memorial represents the passive, the aftermath of war. A winged spirit appears in the arch symbolising the attributes of Womanhood, her tender maternal compassion, her sacrifice of son and lover, and her power of resistance under strain. The spirit carries on its left arm the limp figure of a dead hero, while in its right hand it holds the cross-like sword, now in its scabbard. It was the voice of Womanhood, which uttered the stirring lines from John Oxenham’s poem, ‘Hail! And Farewell’, which were engraved below:- All honour give to those who nobly striving, nobly fell that we might live.