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The Royal Naval Division Memorial is a First World War memorial located on Horse Guards Parade in central London, and dedicated to members of the 63rd (Royal Naval) Division (RND) killed in that conflict.
When the war began, a Marine Brigade of four infantry battalions was formed from men of the Royal Marine Light Infantry and Royal Marine Artillery.The brigade was to be an Advanced Base Force, according to a pre-war plan to furnish the Admiralty with a means to take, fortify or defend temporary naval bases for fleet operations or the supply of army field forces.
English: Sir Edwin Lutyens' memorial to the 45,000 members of the Royal Naval Division who died in the First World War, situated on Horseguards Parade, London, next to the former Admiralty Building. Date
The monument was built by the Birmingham Guild at a cost of around £22,000, with the lettering cut by Ernest Gillick.It was unveiled by Field Marshal Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn at a ceremony on 16 October 1926, accompanied by the 100-year-old veteran of the Crimean War General Sir George Higginson, with a dedication by Rev. H. J. Fleming, who became senior chaplain of the ...
Royal Naval Division War Memorial Horse Guards Road 51°30′19″N 0°07′44″W / 51.5054°N 0.1290°W / 51.5054; -0.1290 ( Royal Naval Division War
Royal Naval Association Uttoxeter Memorial; Royal Naval Medical Services Memorial; Royal Naval Patrol Service Memorial ; 'HMS Europa, (RNPS)' Royal Naval Review; Royal Navy Coastal Forces Memorial; Royal Navy Engineers Benevolent Society Memorial; Royal Norfolk Regiment, Suffolk Regiment and Cambridgeshire Regiment Memorial ; Anglian Regiment
The 1st Royal Naval Brigade was an infantry brigade of the Royal Navy which was formed from excess naval reserve personnel. The brigade was formed in August 1914 and assigned to the 63rd (Royal Naval) Division after that division's formation in September 1914 and served on the Western Front and during the Gallipoli campaign, until July 1916 when it was broken up.
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