Civil Service Rifles War Memorial

City of Westminster, United Kingdom

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Designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and unveiled on 27 January 1924 by the Prince of Wales, the Civil Service Rifles War Memorial stands on the riverside terrace at Somerset House in central London. The memorial commemorates 1,240 members of the Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles—Territorial Force reservists largely drawn from the British Civil Service—who died in the First World War. The monument takes the form of a single rectangular column topped by a sculptured urn and flanked by painted stone flags: the Union Flag and the regimental colour. The base bears the regiment's battle honours, while an inscription on the column records that a scroll of the fallen's names was sealed within. Originally positioned in Somerset House's quadrangle, which had served as the regiment's parade ground, the memorial was relocated to its present riverside site in the late 1990s as the building was repurposed. Designated Grade II* listed in 2015, it forms part of the national collection of Lutyens's war memorials.