File:Hyde Park Corner, The Machine Gun Corps Memorial.jpg
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English: The Machine Gun Corps Memorial, at Hyde Park Corner, is a memorial to the dead of the Machine Gun Corps in the First World War in London. It is topped with a nude statue of a young David by Francis Derwent Wood.
The inscription reads: ERECTED TO / COMMEMORATE / THE GLORIOUS / HEROES / OF THE / MACHINE GUN / CORPS / WHO FELL IN / THE GREAT / WAR / Saul has slain his thousands / but David his tens of thousands / MCMXIV - MCMXIX To either side of the statue is a real Vickers gun, encased in bronze and laurel-wreathed. The memorial was originally erected in 1925 next to Grosvenor Place; it was rededicated at its present location, in the central section of Hyde Park Corner, in 1963. |
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| Source | Crop of https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2955442 |
| Author | David Dixon |
| Attribution (required by the license) | David Dixon / Hyde Park Corner, The Machine Gun Corps Memorial / |
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This image was taken from the Geograph project collection. See this photograph's page on the Geograph website for the photographer's contact details. The copyright on this image is owned by David Dixon and is licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license.
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| current | 10:00, 17 November 2012 | | 592 × 640 (336 KB) | Rotatebot | Bot: Image rotated by 90° (EXIF-Orientation set from 8 to 1, rotated 0°) |
| 09:05, 17 November 2012 |  | 640 × 592 (336 KB) | Ham II | User created page with UploadWizard |
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