Image: Hyde Park Corner, The Machine Gun Corps Memorial

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Description: 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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