SEA LION PRESS

By J. Concagh The Royal Artillery Monument in Hyde Park; image courtesy wikimedia commons. I have a soft spot for the Royal Artillery Memorial. It is not a conventional kind of memorial; dominated not by the people it commemorates but by their tools; the artillery shells, the chains of the gun train, the short, stout, towering mass of the Howitzer all dominate over the four human figures, the shrouded body of the fallen gunner, the workmanlike stance of the shell carrier and