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Artists Rifles OTC

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Reference WMO/287002

Address:

Main Road

Romford

RM2 6LX

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Roadside
Description: Stone of remembrance
Materials:
  • Stone Stone (any)
Lettering: Incised
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
About the memorial: Four-sided stone with a marker panel on each side. Across the road from the junction with Links Avenue.
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Front panel: At this site stood the main gate for the Artists Rifles OTC (Officer Training Camp) 1915 to 1919. Underneath is the Artists Rifles badge and at the bottom, We will remember them. Rear panel shows an engraving of John Nash's painting Over The Top, depicting the regiment at the Battle of Cambrai on 30th December 1917. Side panel one has the poem Futility by Wilfred Owen. Side panel two has the poem Rain by Edward Thomas (John Nash, his older artist brother Paul Nash, and war poets Owen and Thomas were all trained by the Artists Rifles).

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