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Royal Artillery Memorial

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The Royal Artillery Memorial is a stone memorial at Hyde Park Corner in London, dedicated to the First World War casualties of the Royal Regiment of Artillery. [1]

85 relations: Adrian Jones (sculptor), Alan Borg, Alfred Jarvis, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Artillery, Aston Webb, Australian War Memorial, London, Barnsley, Berg Publishers, BL 9.2-inch howitzer, Brian Sewell, Bronze, Charles ffoulkes, Charles Sargeant Jagger, Christopher R. W. Nevinson, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Cubism, Daily Express, Daily Mail, Driver (rank), Edward Poynter, Edwin Lutyens, English Heritage, Engraving, Eugene Paul Bennett, Francis Derwent Wood, Frank Brangwyn, Gallipoli Campaign, Gavin Stamp, Geoffrey Grigson, George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, Grade I listed buildings in the City of Westminster, Grade I listed war memorials in England, Great Western Railway War Memorial, Gunner (rank), Henry V (play), Herbert Baker, Homer, Hoylake and West Kirby War Memorial, Hyde Park Corner, Imperial War Museum, John Philip Du Cane, John Singer Sargent, Lionel Pearson, Listed building, London, London Paddington station, Lord Edward Gleichen, Machine Gun Corps Memorial, Masculinity, ..., Memorial Gates, London, Military Cross, Neuve-Église, New Zealand War Memorial, London, Other ranks (UK), Pedestal, Pen and Sword Books, Phallus, Portland stone, Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, Realism (arts), Reginald Blomfield, Relief, Roger Fry, Royal Artillery, Royal College of Art, Second Boer War, Selwyn Image, Shell (projectile), Shire Books, SW postcode area, The Cenotaph, Southampton, The Cenotaph, Whitehall, The Guardian, The Illustrated London News, The Times, Wellington Arch, Western Front (World War I), Whitehall, William Robert Colton, Worcester, World War I, World War I memorials, World War II, Wyndham Lewis. Expand index (35 more) »

Adrian Jones (sculptor)

Adrian Jones MVO (9 February 1845 – 24 January 1938) was an English sculptor and painter who specialized in animals, particularly horses.

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Alan Borg

Alan Charles Nelson Borg (born 21 January 1942) is a former director of the Victoria and Albert Museum and Librarian of the Order of St John.

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Alfred Jarvis

The Very. Rev Alfred Charles Eustace Jarvis was an eminent Anglican priest in the 20th century.

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Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, (1 May 1769 – 14 September 1852) was an Anglo-Irish soldier and statesman who was one of the leading military and political figures of 19th-century Britain, serving twice as Prime Minister.

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Artillery

Artillery is a class of large military weapons built to fire munitions far beyond the range and power of infantry's small arms.

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Aston Webb

Sir Aston Webb (22 May 1849 – 21 August 1930) was an English architect who designed the principal facade of Buckingham Palace and the main building of the Victoria and Albert Museum, among other major works around England, many of them in partnership with Ingress Bell.

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Australian War Memorial, London

The Australian War Memorial in London is a memorial dedicated in 2003 to the 102,000 Australian dead of the First and Second World Wars.

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Barnsley

Barnsley (locally) is a town in South Yorkshire, England, located halfway between Leeds and Sheffield.

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Berg Publishers

Berg Publishers was an academic publishing company based in Oxford, England that was founded in 1983 by Marion Berghahn.

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BL 9.2-inch howitzer

The Ordnance BL 9.2-inch howitzer was a heavy siege howitzer that formed the principal counter-battery equipment of British forces in France in World War I. It equipped a substantial number of siege batteries of the Royal Garrison Artillery. It remained in service until about the middle of World War II.

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Brian Sewell

Brian Sewell (15 July 1931 – 19 September 2015) was an English art critic and media personality.

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Bronze

Bronze is an alloy consisting primarily of copper, commonly with about 12% tin and often with the addition of other metals (such as aluminium, manganese, nickel or zinc) and sometimes non-metals or metalloids such as arsenic, phosphorus or silicon.

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Charles ffoulkes

Charles John ffoulkes (1868–1947) was a British historian, and curator of the Royal Armouries at London.

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Charles Sargeant Jagger

Charles Sargeant Jagger (17 December 1885 – 16 November 1934) was a British sculptor who, following active service in the First World War, sculpted many works on the theme of war.

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Christopher R. W. Nevinson

Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson (13 August 1889 – 7 October 1946) was an English figure and landscape painter, etcher and lithographer, who was one of the most famous war artists of World War I. He is often referred to by his initials C. R. W. Nevinson, and was also known as Richard.

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Commonwealth War Graves Commission

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) is an intergovernmental organisation of six independent member states whose principal function is to mark, record and maintain the graves and places of commemoration of Commonwealth of Nations military service members who died in the two World Wars.

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Cubism

Cubism is an early-20th-century art movement which brought European painting and sculpture historically forward toward 20th century Modern art.

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Daily Express

The Daily Express is a daily national middle market tabloid newspaper in the United Kingdom.

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Daily Mail

The Daily Mail is a British daily middle-marketPeter Wilby, New Statesman, 19 December 2013 (online version: 2 January 2014) tabloid newspaper owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust and published in London.

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Driver (rank)

Driver (Dvr) was a military rank used in the British Army and the armies of other Commonwealth countries.

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Edward Poynter

Sir Edward John Poynter, 1st Baronet (20 March 1836 in Paris – 26 July 1919 in London) was an English painter, designer, and draughtsman who served as President of the Royal Academy.

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Edwin Lutyens

Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens, (29 March 1869 – 1 January 1944) was an English architect known for imaginatively adapting traditional architectural styles to the requirements of his era.

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English Heritage

English Heritage (officially the English Heritage Trust) is a registered charity that manages the National Heritage Collection.

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Engraving

Engraving is the practice of incising a design onto a hard, usually flat surface by cutting grooves into it.

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Eugene Paul Bennett

Eugene Paul Bennett VC MC (4 June 1892 – 6 April 1970) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

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Francis Derwent Wood

Francis Derwent Wood (Keswick 1871–1926 London) was a British sculptor.

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Frank Brangwyn

Sir Frank William Brangwyn (12 May 1867 – 11 June 1956) was an Anglo-Welsh artist, painter, water colourist, engraver, illustrator and progressive designer.

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Gallipoli Campaign

The Gallipoli Campaign, also known as the Dardanelles Campaign, the Battle of Gallipoli, or the Battle of Çanakkale (Çanakkale Savaşı), was a campaign of the First World War that took place on the Gallipoli peninsula (Gelibolu in modern Turkey) in the Ottoman Empire between 17 February 1915 and 9 January 1916.

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Gavin Stamp

Gavin Mark Stamp (15 March 1948 – 30 December 2017) was a British writer and architectural historian.

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Geoffrey Grigson

Geoffrey Edward Harvey Grigson (2 March 1905 – 25 November 1985) was a British poet, writer, editor, critic, anthologist and naturalist.

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George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston

George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, (11 January 1859 – 20 March 1925), known as Lord Curzon of Kedleston between 1898 and 1911 and as Earl Curzon of Kedleston between 1911 and 1921, and commonly as Lord Curzon, was a British Conservative statesman.

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Grade I listed buildings in the City of Westminster

There are over 9,000 Grade I listed buildings in England.

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Grade I listed war memorials in England

There are 20 Grade I listed war memorials in England, out of over 3,000 listed war memorials.

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Great Western Railway War Memorial

The Great Western Railway War Memorial is a monument in London, United Kingdom, to the memory of employees of the Great Western Railway who died during the First World War, and it is situated halfway along platform 1 at London Paddington station.

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Gunner (rank)

Gunner (Gnr) is a rank equivalent to private in the British Army Royal Artillery and the artillery corps of other Commonwealth armies.

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Henry V (play)

Henry V is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written near 1599.

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Herbert Baker

Sir Herbert Baker (9 June 1862 – 4 February 1946) was an English architect remembered as the dominant force in South African architecture for two decades, and a major designer of some of New Delhi's most notable government structures.

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Homer

Homer (Ὅμηρος, Hómēros) is the name ascribed by the ancient Greeks to the legendary author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems that are the central works of ancient Greek literature.

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Hoylake and West Kirby War Memorial

The Hoylake and West Kirby War Memorial is a 14.5-metre-high, granite four-sided obelisk which stands on Grange Hill, West Kirby, Merseyside.

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Hyde Park Corner

Hyde Park Corner is an area in London, England, located around a major road junction at the southeastern corner of Hyde Park.

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Imperial War Museum

Imperial War Museums (IWM) is a British national museum organisation with branches at five locations in England, three of which are in London.

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John Philip Du Cane

General Sir John Philip Du Cane, (5 May 1865 – 5 April 1947) was a British Army general.

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John Singer Sargent

John Singer Sargent (January 12, 1856 – April 14, 1925) was an American artist, considered the "leading portrait painter of his generation" for his evocations of Edwardian era luxury.

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Lionel Pearson

Lionel Godfrey Pearson (1879–1953) was a British architect, best known for the Grade I listed Royal Artillery Memorial, which he designed with the sculptor Charles Sargeant Jagger.

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Listed building

A listed building, or listed structure, is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, Cadw in Wales, and the Northern Ireland Environment Agency in Northern Ireland.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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London Paddington station

Paddington, also known as London Paddington, is a Central London railway terminus and London Underground station complex, located on Praed Street in the Paddington area.

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Lord Edward Gleichen

Major General Lord Albert Edward Wilfred Gleichen (15 January 1863 – 14 December 1937) was a British courtier and soldier.

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Machine Gun Corps Memorial

The Machine Gun Corps Memorial, also known as The Boy David, is a memorial to the casualties of the Machine Gun Corps in the First World War.

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Masculinity

Masculinity (manhood or manliness) is a set of attributes, behaviors, and roles associated with boys and men.

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Memorial Gates, London

The Memorial Gates are a war memorial located at the Hyde Park Corner end of Constitution Hill in London.

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Military Cross

The Military Cross (MC) is the third-level military decoration awarded to officers and (since 1993) other ranks of the British Armed Forces, and used to be awarded to officers of other Commonwealth countries.

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Neuve-Église

Neuve-Église is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France.

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New Zealand War Memorial, London

The New Zealand War Memorial in London is a memorial to the war dead of New Zealand in the First and Second World Wars, unveiled in 2006.

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Other ranks (UK)

Other ranks (ORs) in the Royal Marines, British Army, Royal Air Force and in the armies and air forces of many other Commonwealth countries are those personnel who are not commissioned officers, usually including non-commissioned officers (NCOs).

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Pedestal

A pedestal (from French piédestal, Italian piedistallo, "foot of a stall") or plinth is the support of a statue or a vase.

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Pen and Sword Books

Pen and Sword Books is a British publisher which specializes in printing and distributing books on military history, militaria and other niche subjects.

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Phallus

A phallus is a penis (especially when erect), an object that resembles a penis, or a mimetic image of an erect penis.

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Portland stone

Portland stone is a limestone from the Tithonian stage of the Jurassic period quarried on the Isle of Portland, Dorset.

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Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn

Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, (Arthur William Patrick Albert; 1 May 185016 January 1942) was a member of the British Royal Family who served as the Governor General of Canada, the tenth since Canadian Confederation.

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Realism (arts)

Realism, sometimes called naturalism, in the arts is generally the attempt to represent subject matter truthfully, without artificiality and avoiding artistic conventions, or implausible, exotic, and supernatural elements.

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Reginald Blomfield

Sir Reginald Theodore Blomfield (20 December 1856 – 27 December 1942) was a prolific British architect, garden designer and author of the Victorian and Edwardian period.

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Relief

Relief is a sculptural technique where the sculpted elements remain attached to a solid background of the same material.

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Roger Fry

Roger Eliot Fry (14 December 1866 – 9 September 1934) was an English painter and critic, and a member of the Bloomsbury Group.

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Royal Artillery

The Royal Regiment of Artillery, commonly referred to as the Royal Artillery (RA) and colloquially known as "The Gunners", is the artillery arm of the British Army.

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Royal College of Art

The Royal College of Art (RCA) is a public research university in London, in the United Kingdom.

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Second Boer War

The Second Boer War (11 October 1899 – 31 May 1902) was fought between the British Empire and two Boer states, the South African Republic (Republic of Transvaal) and the Orange Free State, over the Empire's influence in South Africa.

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Selwyn Image

Selwyn Image (February 17, 1849, Bodiam, Sussex – August 21, 1930, London) was an English clergyman, designer, particularly of stained glass windows, and poet.

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Shell (projectile)

A shell is a payload-carrying projectile that, as opposed to shot, contains an explosive or other filling, though modern usage sometimes includes large solid projectiles properly termed shot.

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Shire Books

Shire Books are published by Bloomsbury Publishing, a book publishing company based in London, England, and formerly by Shire Publications Ltd.

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SW postcode area

The SW (South Western) postcode area, also known as the London SW postcode area, is a group of postcode districts covering part of southwest London, England.

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The Cenotaph, Southampton

The Southampton Cenotaph is a stone memorial at Watts Park in Southampton, England, originally dedicated to the casualties of the First World War.

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The Cenotaph, Whitehall

The Cenotaph is a war memorial on Whitehall in London, England.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Illustrated London News

The Illustrated London News appeared first on Saturday 14 May 1842, as the world's first illustrated weekly news magazine.

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The Times

The Times is a British daily (Monday to Saturday) national newspaper based in London, England.

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Wellington Arch

Wellington Arch, also known as Constitution Arch or (originally) the Green Park Arch, is a triumphal arch forming a centrepiece of Hyde Park Corner in central London between corners of Hyde Park and Green Park — it sits on a large traffic island having crossings for pedestrian access.

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Western Front (World War I)

The Western Front was the main theatre of war during the First World War.

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Whitehall

Whitehall is a road in the City of Westminster, Central London, which forms the first part of the A3212 road from Trafalgar Square to Chelsea.

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William Robert Colton

William Robert Colton RA (25 December 1867 – 13 November 1921) was a British sculptor.

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Worcester

Worcester is a city in Worcestershire, England, southwest of Birmingham, west-northwest of London, north of Gloucester and northeast of Hereford.

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World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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World War I memorials

World War I memorials commemorate the events and the casualties of World War I. These war memorials include civic memorials, larger national monuments, war cemeteries, private memorials and a range of utilitarian designs such as halls and parks, dedicated to remembering those involved in the conflict.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Wyndham Lewis

Percy Wyndham Lewis (18 November 1882 – 7 March 1957) was an English writer, painter and critic (he dropped the name "Percy", which he disliked).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Artillery_Memorial

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