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Not every statue in London. The ones worth crossing the road for: Roman wall, medieval ruins, and the monuments that earn a detour.
A stone howitzer and four bronze gunners, one of them dead under his greatcoat: the most honest war memorial in London.
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Charles Sargeant Jagger had been a soldier, wounded three times, and when he was asked in 1921 to commemorate the 49,076 of the Royal Artillery killed in the war he gave them a giant 9.2-inch howitzer carved in Portland stone, and around it four bronze figures of the men who served it: an officer, a shell-carrier, a driver with his cape spread, and a dead man lying under his coat with his helmet on his chest. The last was almost unheard of on a memorial and it caused an outcry. The reliefs round the base are the guns in action, mud and all. Unveiled in 1925, and the finest piece of sculpture from the war.
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