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Royal Artillery Memorial, Hyde Park Corner, London, 2015. Digital photograph from a collection of 555 digital images of military-related sculpture, street names, pubs and institutions, primarily in London. Photographs taken and compiled by Rod Cooper for the development of the ‘Society’ gallery at the National Army Museum, in 2015. The memorial was designed by Charles Jagger and Lionel Pearson and unveiled in 1925. The memorial consists of a sculpture of a howitzer on a large plinth, with stone reliefs and four bronze figures of Royal Artillery personnel. Associated with World War One (1914-1918). This bronze figure, one of four on the memorial, represents a Royal Artillery officer. The figure was modelled on Eugene Paul Bennett VC, an officer from Jagger’s unit, the Worcestershire Regiment.

World War One, Western Front (1914-1918)