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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 First World War and Russian Civil War, with later additions commemorating the Royal Fusiliers who died during the Second World War and in subsequent conflicts.
The Royal Fusiliers War Memorial, with its bronze figure of a Fusilier sculpted by Albert Toft, stands at Holborn Bar on the boundary of the City of London. A panel on the back of the pedestal lists all the RF battalions, including 10th (Stockbrokers), 10th (B) of the Intelligence Corps, and 31st (Reserve).
The Royal Fusiliers War Memorial on Holborn, a memorial to Royal Fusiliers killed in both the First and Second World Wars. The colonels of the regiment included: [2] [76] 1685–1689: Lieutenant-General George Legge, 1st Baron Dartmouth; 1689–1692: General John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough
The 13th (Service) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, (13th RF) was an infantry unit recruited as part of 'Kitchener's Army' in World War I.It served on the Western Front from July 1915 until the Armistice, seeing action at the Somme and the Ancre, at Arras and Ypres, against the German spring offensive, and in the final Hundred Days Offensive.
The Sportsman's Battalions, also known as the 23rd (Service) Battalion [1] and 24th (Service) Battalion (2nd Sportsman's), Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) were among the Pals battalions formed by the British Army in the early stages of the First World War (1914–1918).
Northampton War Memorial; Northumberland Fusiliers Memorial; Norwich War Memorial; Old Eldon Square War Memorial, Newcastle; Oldham War Memorial; Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry War Memorial; Parliamentary War Memorial; Polish Forces War Memorial:National Memorial Arboretum; Port Sunlight War Memorial; Port Talbot War Memorial ...
There are no inscriptions on the sides or back of the memorial plinth, just the sculptor's name. The sculpture of the soldier replicates that which Toft executed for the war memorial at Holborn in London (Memorial to the Royal Fusiliers City of London Regiment). [7]
John created a similar representation of a regiment's heroic traditions for the 1924 Royal Welch Fusiliers memorial at Wrexham which features statues of 18th and 20th century soldiers. [2] On the reverse of the Liverpool monument is a sculpture featuring a regimental drummer boy of 1743.