Military & Memorials
Royal Artillery Memorial
A giant stone howitzer aimed, by legend, at the Somme, surrounded by four bronze artillerymen — including a fallen gunner under his greatcoat, one of the first British memorials to show a dead soldier. Jagger, who fought at Gallipoli, refused all heroic gloss; many consider it Britain's greatest war memorial.
- Subject
- The 49,076 Royal Artillery dead of the First World War
- Sculptor
- Charles Sargeant Jagger
- Unveiled
- 1925
- Material
- Portland stone and bronze
- Location
- Hyde Park Corner
- Area
- Hyde Park Corner
