The Animals in War Memorial was designed by English sculptor David Backhouse and unveiled in 2004.

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Tim Backhouse, who moved to Bow two years ago, said he hoped the 15ft (4.5m) sign would slow traffic.

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The county council said it had built a footpath to the shop, which Mr Backhouse said residents were grateful for.

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"Bow has a shop 300 yards (274m) outside the village perimeter which a lot of pedestrians walk to, " Mr Backhouse said.

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Mr Backhouse said he painted the sign as part of Road Safety Week UK and would paint over it on 5 December.

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Corporal Jonathan Horne and Riflemen William Aldridge, James Backhouse and Joseph Murphy were rescuing comrades from an explosion when they were killed in a second blast.

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Some were brilliant, including his biography of Sir Edmund Backhouse, an unscrupulous British oriental scholar, and his satirical essays on life at Oxford published under the pseudonym Mercurius Oxoniensis.

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