Royal Artillery Memorial — Attraction in London

From wiki "The Royal Artillery Memorial is a First World War memorial located on Hyde Park Corner in London, England. Designed by Charles Sargeant Jagger, with architectural work by Lionel Pearson, and unveiled in 1925, the memorial commemorates the 49,076 soldiers from the Royal Artillery killed in the First World War. The static nature of the conflict, particularly on the Western Front, meant that artillery played a major role in the war, though physical reminders of the fighting were often avoided in the years after the war. The Royal Artillery War Commemoration Fund (RAWCF) was formed in 1918 to preside over the regiment's commemorations, aware of some dissatisfaction with memorials to previous wars. The RAWCF approached several eminent architects but its insistence on a visual representation of artillery meant that none was able to produce a satisfactory design. Thus they approached Jagger, himself an ex-soldier who had been wounded in the war. Jagger produced a design which was accepted in 1922, though he modified it several times before...

One of the war monuments situated at Hyde Park Corner is the Royal Artillery Memorial. This is the work of Charles Sargeant Jaggar and Lionel Pearson (1925) pays tribute to the 49,000 soldiers who lost their lives serving under service to the Royal Artillery during WWI.

What you find is a large monument base in the shape of a crucifix. It is topped by a howitzer artillery field gun. At the arm ends of the base there are bronze figures of an officer, shell carrier, driver and a dead soldier. It is a touching memorial and one worth a moment or two if monument viewing at Hyde...

Situated right in front of the Wellington arch. The Royal Artillery Memorial is a First World War memorial located on Hyde Park Corner. The memorial consists of a Portland stone cruciform base supporting a 1/3 over-lifesize sculpture of a howitzer, a type of artillery field gun, which was based on a gun in the Imperial War Museum. At the end of each arm of the cross is a sculpture of a soldier, a shell carrier on the east side, a driver on the west side, and at the rear (north) a dead soldier. The sides of the base are decorated with relief sculptures depicting...