Commemorating those killed in the Liverpool Blitz

The Liverpool Blitz was the heavy and sustained bombing of the city of Liverpool and its surrounding area, by the German Luftwaffe during WW2 in 1940.
Liverpool, Bootle and the Wirral were the most heavily bombed areas of the country outside of London, due to their importance in the British war effort. The government was desperate to hide from the Germans just how much damage they had wreaked on the ports and so reports on the bombing of the area were deliberately kept low-key. Over 4,000 Liverpudlians lost their lives during the blitz, dwarfing the number of casualties sustained in other bombed industrial areas such as Birmingham and Coventry. This death toll was second only to London, which over a more sustained period suffered 30,000 deaths by the end of the war.

This commemoration stands in the grounds of the famous St. Nicholas Church, Liverpool.