The Civil Service Rifles War Memorial is a First World War memorial located at Somerset House in London, England. Designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and unveiled by Edward, Prince of Wales, in 1924, the memorial commemorates the 1,240 members of the Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles regiment killed in the war. The memorial takes the form of a rectangular column surmounted by a sculpture of an urn and flanked by painted stone flags, a feature seen in other memorials by Lutyens. A scroll of the names of the fallen was placed inside the memorial. Those who served in the regiment were Territorial Force reservists, drawn largely from the British Civil Service with many staff based in Somerset House. The memorial was initially located in the quadrangle, which had been used by the regiment as a parade ground. It was later moved to the riverside terrace and rededicated in 2002. Upgraded to Grade II* listed-building status in 2015, it forms part of a national collection of war memorials by Lutyens.
Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Service_Rifles_War_Memorial
_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1919:
Yugoslavian troops shot at protesters advocating for the incorporation of Maribor into the Republic of German-Austria. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marburg%27s_Bloody_Sunday
1996:
Mahamane Ousmane, the first democratically elected president of Niger, was deposed by Colonel Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara in a military coup d'état. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahamane_Ousmane
2011:
Astronomers documented H1504+65, a white dwarf in Ursa Minor with the hottest surface temperature known at the time, at 200,000 kelvins (360,000 °F). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursa_Minor
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
peashooter: 1. A toy weapon consisting of a tube through which dried peas or small objects are blown. 2. A person who uses such a device. 3. (slang) Any small or ineffective gun or weapon. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/peashooter
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
"It was much pleasanter at home," thought poor Alice, "when one wasn't always growing larger and smaller, and being ordered about by mice and rabbits. I almost wish I hadn't gone down that rabbit-hole — and yet — and yet — it's rather curious, you know, this sort of life! I do wonder what can have happened to me! When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one!" --Alice's Adventures in Wonderland https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alice%27s_Adventures_in_Wonderland