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English: 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.

Jagger was himself an ex-soldier who had been wounded in the war. The memorial consists of a Portland stone cruciform base supporting a one-third over-lifesize sculpture of a howitzer, which Jagger based on a gun in the Imperial War Museum. At the end of each arm of the cross is a sculpture of a soldier—an officer at the front (south side), a shell carrier on the east side, a driver on the west side, and at the rear (north) a dead soldier.

It was the first War Memorial anywhere to depict not just weapons of war, but a dead combatant as well. Whilst controversial at the time of unveiling by Prince Arthur of Connaught in 1925, the memorial was popular with others, including ex-servicemen, and later came to be recognised as Jagger's masterpiece and one of Britain's finest war memorials.

Dedications were later added to the memory of the 29,924 Royal Artillerymen killed in the Second World War. It underwent restoration in 2011 and is a Grade I listed building managed by English Heritage; it now shares its site with multiple other military monuments and war memorials.
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