Royal Artillery Memorial

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.
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  • Type: Memorial
  • Description: war memorial on Hyde Park Corner, London
  • Address: London, SW1X 7TA
  • Wheelchair access: yes

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Leicester Square and Constitution Arch.

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The area around , often called the West End, is the entertainment heart of . The area also includes Chinatown, Piccadilly Circus and Trafalgar Square.

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The Wellington Arch, also known as the or as the Green Park Arch, is a Grade I-listed triumphal arch by Decimus Burton that forms a centrepiece of Hyde Park Corner in central , the road junction near the south-eastern corner of .

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is the London townhouse of the Dukes of Wellington. It stands alone at Hyde Park Corner, on the south-east corner of , facing towards the large traffic roundabout in the centre of which stands the . is situated 340 feet north of Royal Artillery Memorial.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Belgravia and Mayfair-Marylebone.

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is a district in , covering parts of the areas of the and the . was known as the 'Five Fields' during the Tudor Period, and became a dangerous place due to highwaymen and robberies.

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Mayfair and Marylebone are districts of central . Together they cover a large area of western central London, encompassing the whole of Mayfair and Piccadilly to the south and the area from Oxford Street through Marylebone to Regent's Park and the border with St John's Wood to the north.

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is an area of , in the . It is named after , which is a major transport hub. The station was named after the nearby Street, opened 1851.

Royal Artillery Memorial

Latitude
51.50257° or 51° 30′ 9″ north
Longitude
-0.15195° or 0° 9′ 7″ west
Inception
1925
Open location code
9C3XGR3X+26
Open­Street­Map ID
way 185084284
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­yes
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­memorial
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­yes
Wiki­data ID
Q7373706
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In Other Languages

From French to Russian—“Royal Artillery Memorial” goes by many names.
  • French: “Royal Artillery Memorial”
  • Hebrew: “אנדרטת הארטילריה”
  • Hungarian: “A Királyi Tüzérség első világháborús emlékműve”
  • Indonesian: “Royal Artillery Memorial”
  • Japanese: “ロイヤル・アーティラリ・メモリアル”
  • Japanese: “王立砲兵記念碑”
  • Russian: “Мемориал Королевской артиллерии”

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include The Lanesborough and Machine Gun Corps Memorial.

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