The Sentry, Etham Palace

Charles Sargeant Jagger studied at the Royal College of Art. He joined the Artists’ Rifles during the First World War and was awarded the Military Cross. Jagger was given a seat on the British War Memorials Committee and produced a number of memorial sculptures. The Sentry stands in the Britannia Hotel (formally Watts Warehouse), Manchester. Stephen Courtauld bought a reduced copy of the statue in 1924, from which this cast was made in 1999.