Status: Listed Grade II
Architect: Harold Chalton Bradshaw & Gilbert Ledward, 1926
Location: Horse Guards Road, London
The memorial at Horse Guards Parade, commemorates 14,000 Guardsmen who died in the Great War, was unveiled in 1926. The competition for its design held in 1922 had been won by the architect Harold Chalton Bradshaw and the sculptor Gilbert Ledward. The two had met at the British School at Rome before the war, where the former had been the first Rome Scholar in Architecture and the latter the first Rome Scholar in Sculpture. The first design was inspired by Galloni’s Garibaldi monument in Rome but it then evolved into a stocky and severe stone obelisk, or pylon, against which stand a deliberatively stiff and formal row of five guardsmen. Ledward was instructed that each was to be representative of a typical soldier from each of the five divisions: Grenadiers, Coldstreams, Scots, Welsh and Irish Guards. Models were chosen from the Irish Guards and as the sculptor worked from the nude figure first they were instructed to strip off first: “Begorrah, Sir, and do the ladies have to do this too?” On the rear face of the memorial, facing St James’s Park, is a panel depicting an 18-pounder field gun being loaded.
Bradshaw had trained at the Liverpool School of Architecture and had been gassed and wounded in the war. In 1924 he became the first Secretary of the newly founded Royal Fine Art Commission and shortly afterwards he won two separate competitions for Memorials to the Missing proposed by the Imperial War Graves Commission: at Cambrai (eventually erected at Louverval in France) and at Lille (taken over the border to Ploegsteert in Belgium and where the flanking lions are by Ledward).
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"Mwanzoni mwa mwaka wa 1926 Jengo la ""Horse Guards Road"" lilijengwa na Harold Chalton Bradshaw na Gilbert Ledward, na kuanzishwa mwaka wa 1926 na kuwakumbusha askari 14,000 waliokufa katika Vita Kuu ya Ulimwengu." Mshindani wa kubuni jengo hilo ulifanyika mwaka 1922 na kufanikiwa na msanifu-ujenzi Harold Chalton Bradshaw na mchongaji Gilbert Ledward. Walikuwa wamekutana katika shule ya Uingereza huko Roma kabla ya vita, ambapo wa kwanza alikuwa msomi wa kwanza wa Roma katika usanifu na wa pili msomi wa kwanza wa Roma katika sanamu. "Mfano wa kwanza uliongozwa na ""Galibaldi Monument"" ya Galloni huko Roma, lakini baadaye ilibadilika kuwa obelisk ya mawe yenye nguvu na kali, au mlingoti, dhidi ya ambayo kuna safu ya walinzi watano." Ledward alipewa maagizo kwamba kila mmoja wa askari hao angewakilisha askari wa kawaida kutoka katika kila moja ya vikosi vitano: Grenadiers, Coldstream, Scots, Welsh na Irish Guards. "Wanafunzi wa Ireland walichagua ""Beggar"" na kuamua kuwa ni picha ya msichana aliyetengenezwa na St. James's Park." Bradshaw alikuwa amezoezwa katika Shule ya Liverpool ya Usanifu-ujenzi na alikuwa amepigwa gesi na kujeruhiwa katika vita. Mwaka 1924 alishinda mashindano mawili ya kuunda kumbukumbu za waliopotea, katika Cambrai (baadaye ilijengwa katika Louvre, Ufaransa) na Lille (iliyopelekwa mpaka wa Ploegsteert, Ubelgiji, na ambapo simba wanazunguka ni Ledewater). Ama kuingia jina la mahali au ukumbusho au kuchagua kutoka orodha ya kushuka chini. Orodha hiyo inatia ndani makumbusho huko London na kisha kwa nchi