One of the sculpted lions by Gilbert Ledward adjoining the Ploegsteert Memorial to the Missing at Hyde Park Corner, near Ypres,

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The Ploegsteert Memorial to the Missing (also known as Hyde Park Corner and referred to colloquially as "Plug Street") is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) memorial for the missing soldiers of World War I who fought in the immediate area of the Ypres Salient on the Western Front. The memorial stands in the middle of Berkshire Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery Extension, which was founded by Commonwealth troops in June 1916 as an extension to Hyde Park Corner (Royal Berks) Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery which lies across the road. The memorial lists the 11,367 missing Commonwealth soldiers from battles in the area. The memorial was designed by H Chalton Bradshaw, who also designed the Cambrai Memorial in France, apart from two large lions which were commissioned from the sculptor Gilbert Ledward. It is 70 ft (21 m) in diameter and 38 ft 6 in ( m) tall and was unveiled on 7 June 1931 by the then-Duke of Brabant, later King Leopold III of Belgium

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Size: 4835px × 3453px
Location: Hyde Park Corner, Ploegstreet, Belgum
Photo credit: © Niall Ferguson / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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