This monument was unveiled on August 6, 1961 for the 352 students and teachers of the Hiroshima Prefectural Hiroshima Second Middle School (today’s Hiroshima Prefectural Hiroshima Kanon Senior High School) who died on the river bank between where the monument now stands and today’s West Peace Bridge. They had been mobilized for the war effort there, helping to demolish buildings to create a fire lane. The monument, made from a natural rock, is about one meter tall and about four meters wide. “Ireihi,” meaning “the monument to console the souls of the dead,” is inscribed in large letters on the front, and the names of the students and teachers who died in the atomic bombing are engraved on the back. Next to this monument stands a memorial completed on August 6, 1953, with a poetic epitaph to remember the victims.