Crimean War Memorial, London
Photo: Colin Gregory Palmer, Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 License
The Crimean War Memorial is a monument on Waterloo Place, at the junction of Lower Regent Street and Pall Mall. It was erected in memory of those who fell in the war with Russia in 1854-56. When the Crimean War Memorial was first unveiled, it consisted of the statues of three Guards Men and a female allegorical figure called Honour. The statues were cast by John Bell from bronze from the cannons captured in the siege of Sebastopol.
In 1914, the memorial was moved to make room for the statues of Florence Nightingale and Sidney Herbert, head of the War Office during the war. From then on, the allegorical figure was referred to as Victory.
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