Royal Fusiliers War Memorial
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The Royal Fusiliers War Memorial is a memorial in London, dedicated to the members of the
London Regiment battalions killed in the First World War. It consists of a bronze statue on a 16.5 feet (5.0 m) pedestal made of Portland stone
.
It was erected in 1922 at
Holborn Bar, one of the ancient entry points to the City of London, on a traffic island in the middle of High Holborn, on the City's boundary with the London Borough of Camden, denoted by a dragon boundary mark on either side of the street. The site is near High Holborn's junction with Gray's Inn Road, and is close to the historic Staple Inn
.
History
An original intention to erect a memorial to the Royal London Fusiliers in a
Hounslow Barracks and then Holborn. A subscription list opened in 1919 and raised £3,000 by August 1920. The monument was unveiled by the Lord Mayor of London on 4 November 1922. The church of St Sepulchre-without-Newgate, about 450 yards (410 m) east of the memorial, was selected as the regimental chapel in 1946. The memorial became a Grade II listed structure
in 1972, upgraded to Grade II* in July 2017.
Inscriptions
The main inscription is on the west-facing front of the pedestal below a bronze relief of the Tudor Rose from the regimental badge and states the memorial's dedication to the almost 22,000 soldiers of Royal Fusiliers who died during the
labour battalions of the Royal Fusiliers which served between 1914 and 1919, along with a number of London Regiment battalions whose predecessors had been attached to the Royal Fusiliers prior to 1908.[a]
Statue
The 8.5 feet (2.6 m) high bronze statue was designed by
Battle of Flers-Courcelette
, where tanks were used in battle for the first time on 15 September 1916.
See also
Notes
References
- ^ "Roll of Honour - Royal Fusiliers Memorial". Retrieved 29 November 2020.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Royal Fusiliers War Memorial.
- The Royal Fusiliers Memorial, victorianweb.org
- Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1064638)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 19 September 2012.
- The War Memorial at Holborn, The Fusilier Museum London
- 41st Division Memorial, Flers, firstworldwar.com
