Prince Christian Victor Memorial

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The Prince Christian Victor Memorial is a war memorial on The Hoe in Plymouth. It was erected in 1902 to commemorate the death of Prince Christian Victor of Schleswig-Holstein, the eldest son of Queen Victoria's third daughter Princess Helena. He died of typhoid fever during the Second Boer War.

It became a Grade II listed building in 1975. The memorial was designed by the architect Frederick William Marks, with three bronze panels made by the sculptor Onslow Whiting and one by Emil Fuchs. It comprises a tall obelisk of pink granite, about 12 m (39 ft) high, in several sections, the third from the bottom decorated with a palmette motif, the next fluted, and the last flaring out to the base.

The obelisk stands on a square green granite plinth with plaques, on a lighter grey granite base of two steps. An inscription on the south face records that its foundation stone was laid by Lady Butler on 4 August 1902, and (now almost illegible) that the completed memorial was unveiled on 8 August 1903 by Lady Audrey Buller, wife of General Redvers Buller. Each side of the plinth has an arched recess with a bronze panel.

The front panel (south) by Fuchs shows two angels lifting a soldier "towards...