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Royal Artillery Monument

Site: Royal Artillery Monument (1 memorial)

SW1, Hyde Park Corner

Royal Artillery Memorial has some splendid photos and other stuff about this monument. One of the 4 bronze figures represents a dead soldier, which was shocking at the time and the memorial was not well-received. Now we can see that this is a superior monument by a very experienced sculptor who knew how to do a war memorial. It displays a complex arrangement of planes which provides an interesting base to support the statuary and inscriptions. And that massive cannon thing on the top - that's a howitzer.

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Royal Artillery Monument

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Royal Artillery Monument

The gun on top of the monument is a BL 9.2 inch Howitzer Mk I, carved in ston...

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