Currently at
the Quadriga Gallery in Wellington Arch there is an interesting exhibition
about War Memorials, focused mainly on the London ones cared for by English
Heritage.
One of the
most outstanding examples being the Royal Artillery Memorial, situated at Hyde
Park Corner. With excellent carved relief panels by sculptor Charles Jagger
graphically portraying scenes from WW1 around the base. ‘No other memorial is
as dramatic and brutal in its depiction of modern warfare’.
The
exhibition gives an insight into the move throughout the country to erect
memorials after the First World War and to the fact that most of them were not
paid for by the State but many were the result of contributions from individuals
and fellow service men.
Mention is
also made of the conservation work being carried out and the need to record the
thousands of the memorials from all conflicts that have involved the British.
GWR War Memorial on Paddington Station
