DescriptionHyde Park Corner, The Machine Gun Corps Memorial.jpg
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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