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Royal Fusiliers


Holborn (in centre of road)
Nr Brooke Street (tube Chancery Lane)
London

Royal Fusiliers memorial - Sculptor: Albert ToftThe war memorial - Royal Fusiliers' City of London is dedicated to both the 1914 - 1918 and 1939 - 1945 Wars. A bronze statue of a Royal Fusilier in battle dress is mounted on a tall Portland stone tapered pedestal plinth with a stepped base. The pedestal is mounted on the west face with the Fusilier's badge in bronze and carved dedications with black letter infill. On the east face is a large bronze plaque with raised lettering listing the Battalion Honours. Around the lower stepped base are placed small stainless steel hooks for wreaths.  

The wording on the front of the memorial is as follows:

The Royal Fusiliers
(City of London Regiment)

To the glorious memory of the 22000 Royal Fusiliers who fell in the Great War 1914 - 1919

And to the Royal Fusiliers who fell in the World War 1939 - 1945

And those fusiliers killed in subsequent campaigns


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