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The Civil Service Rifles War Memorial is a First World War memorial located at Somerset House in London. Designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and unveiled by the the Prince of Wales in 1924, the memorial commemorates the 1,240 members of the Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles regiment killed in the war. The memorial takes the form of a rectangular column surmounted by a sculpture of an urn and flanked by painted stone flags, a feature seen in other memorials by Lutyens. A scroll of the names of the fallen was placed inside the memorial. Those who served in the regiment were Territorial Force reservists, drawn largely from the British Civil Service with many staff based in Somerset House. The memorial was initially located in the quadrangle, which had been used by the regiment a parade ground. It was later moved to the riverside terrace and re-dedicated in 2002. Upgraded to grade II* listed building status in 2015, the memorial forms part of a national collection of Lutyens' war memorials. (Full article...)
Harry and Carcharoth: we're almost done with the blurbs for articles promoted at FAC in 2018. If you'd be willing to do one more, this is the last memorial. - Dank (push to talk) 03:09, 11 December 2019 (UTC)