Guard's Memorial - London, UK
Posted by: 
Metro2
N 51° 30.270 W 000° 07.767
30U E 699214 N 5709836
This Memorial is located on Horseguards Parade where the Queen each June reviews the Trooping of the Colour.
Waymark Code: WME2R8
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 03/26/2012
Views: 12
This Memorial takes the form of a cenotaph and features beautiful relief panels and the sculptures of five life-size soldiers standing side by side and holding their rifles at rest in front of themselves.
This website (
visit link) has additional photos and informs us of the Memorial's features and the inscription:
"To the Glory of God. And in the memory of the Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers and Guardsmen of His Majesty's Regiments of Foot Guards who gave their lives for their King and Country during the Great War 1914-1918 and of the Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers , Men of the Household Cavalry, Royal Regiment of Artillery Corps, Royal Army Medical Corps and other Units while serving the Guard's Division in France and Belgium 1915-1918, fell with them in the fight for the World's Freedom.
This Memorial also Commemorates All Those Members of the Household Division who died in the Second World War and in the Service of their Country since 1918."
"Friezes show different scenes from the front."
"The different badges of the Guards Regiments. From left: Grenadier, Scots, Welsh, Irish and Coldstream"
"The Battle Honours of the division are recorded on panels"
This website (
visit link) adds:
"This work by Gilbert Ledward commemorates the five Foot Guards regiments of the 1914-1919 war. Cast from captured guns, the figures were modelled on actual Grenadier, Coldstream, Scots, Irish and Welsh guardsmen. Damaged by World War II bombs, Ledward suggested some of the scars should remain unrepaired."