page_title: Allenby Square
section_title: The monument
hierarchical_section_title: Allenby Square / The monument
caption_attribution_description: English: Newer Jerusalem and suburbs. Surrender Monument in Romemah [i.e., Romema] Colony עברית: האנדרטה בכיכר אלנבי על רקע בתי he:רוממה 1930.
context_page_description: Allenby Square, a name commemorating Field Marshal Edmund Allenby who commanded the British forces which captured Palestine in the First World War, has been bestowed at different times on two different squares in Jerusalem.
  This divergent naming was connected both to prestige struggles within the British forces entering Jerusalem in late 1917, leading to what became known as "the multiple surrenders", and to later vicissitudes of the struggle between Israelis and Arabs for control of the city.
context_section_description: In 1920, a British war memorial was erected on the hill where the first surrender ceremony took place.
  The three-metre high rectangular monument, similar in style to other British WWI memorials, usually designated as cenotaphs, was designed by Ernest Wallcousins. It bore the date of 9 December (the actual surrender day, rather than 11, the date of the ceremonial surrender), with the text:
  Near this spot, the Holy City was surrendered to the 60th London Division, 9th December 1917.
  
  Erected by their comrades to those officers, NCOs and men who fell in fighting for Jerusalem.
  The monument carries reliefs on all four sides schematically depicting medieval knights resting their arms on long swords, a reference to the comparison made at the time by many Britons between the 1917 conquest of Palestine and the Crusades. An equestrian statue of Allenby was planned to stand on top of the memorial, but was never actually installed.
caption: The 1920 Allenby monument.
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