Royal Artillery Memorial
The Royal Artillery Memorial is a large stone memorial at Hyde Park Corner in London dedicated to casualties in the British Royal Regiment of Artillery in World War One.
Designed by Charles Sargeant Jagger and dedicated in 1925, the memorial is in the form of a stone sculpted artillery piece upon a large plinth. Four bronze figures of artillery soldiers adorn the memorial, while an inscription reads:
'In Proud Memory Of The
Forty-Nine-Thousand-Seventy-Six
Of All Ranks Of The
Royal Regiment of Artillery
Who Gave Their Lives for King
And Country in the Great War
19141919'
It is also proported that if the artillery piece were able to be fired, the barrel of the sculpture is angled and directed such that a shell would fall in the Somme region of France.
Categories: Military memorials and cemeteries | Westminster