TO THE GLORIOUS MEMORY

OF THE 2003 MEMBERS OF THE

ARTISTS RIFLES 28TH BATTALION

THE LONDON REGIMENT. WHO

GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR KING

COUNTRY IN THE GREAT

WAR ANNIS DOMINI 1914-1919

THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE

The Memorial to the Artist Rifles in the Courtyard of the Royal Academy.  The Artists Rifles was raised in 1859 as a volunteer unit.  It saw active service in the Boer War, WW1 and WW2.  It was disbanded in 1945 and then resurrected as the SAS Reserve, which it forms today as 21 SAS (Artists) (Reserve).

This Memorial refers to giving their lives for King and Country, but unlike most other Memorials not to God.

Ref No 6.0 in my list of WW1 War Memorials, looking at what the dedications tell us about how ordinary people felt about the War that had just ended.