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The Cenotaph is a war memorial on Whitehall in London, England. Designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, it was unveiled in 1920 as the United Kingdom's national memorial to the dead of Britain and the British Empire of the First World War, was rededicated in 1946 to include those of the Second World War, and has since come to represent the Commonwealth casualties from those and subsequent conflicts.
The centrepiece of the National Service of Remembrance is the Cenotaph, the stone war memorial that stands in the heart of Whitehall in central London, at the base of which members of the royal ...
War memorial honouring Britain’s fallen soldiers designed by Sir Edward Lutyens in 1920 and has stood as centrepiece of National Service of Remembrance ever since
Whitehall itself was a wide street and had sufficient space for a scaffold to be erected for the King's execution at Banqueting House. [2] He made a brief speech there before being beheaded. [14] [b] Cromwell died at the Palace of Whitehall in 1658. [3] People gathered in Whitehall to hear Winston Churchill's victory speech, 8 May 1945
The Cenotaph has its origin in a temporary wood and plaster structure designed by Edwin Lutyens for a peace parade following the end of the First World War. [3] Lutyens was inspired by the Greek idea of a cenotaph Greek : κενοτάφιον kenotaphion (κενός kenos , meaning "empty", and τάφος taphos , "tomb"), [ 4 ] as ...
The Cenotaph as we see it now is a permanent structure made from Portland stone, but it began as a temporary, wooden structure. There were people who thought it shouldn't be on Whitehall, as it ...
The Monument to the Women of World War II is a British national war memorial situated on Whitehall in London next to the Cenotaph at the end of Downing Street.The sculpture represents the wartime contributions of over seven million women, including 650,000 who joined military services.
A cenotaph in the UK that stands in Whitehall, London, was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens [16] and replaced Lutyens' identical wood-and-plaster cenotaph erected in 1919 for the Allied Victory Parade, and is a Grade I listed building. [17]