Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Blackburn War Memorial is a war memorial located in Blackburn, Lancashire, England. It was unveiled on 2 August 1924.Plans for the memorial and Garden of Remembrance were approved on 5 October 1922.In the gardens of Corporation Park is Bertram Mackennal s bronze sculpture of a woman holding in her arms a dying youth; the centrepiece of Blackburn s memorial to the dead of World War I and World War II.