Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry War Memorial
| Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry War Memorial | |
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| For men of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry killed in the First World War | |
| Unveiled | 11 November 1923 |
| Location |
51°43′56″N 1°13′42″W / 51.732358°N 1.228327°WCoordinates: 51°43′56″N 1°13′42″W / 51.732358°N 1.228327°W Cowley, Oxford, England |
| Designed by | Sir Edwin Lutyens |
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Listed Building – Grade II
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| Official name | Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry War Memorial |
| Designated | 28 June 1972 |
| Reference no. | 1369419 |
The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry War Memorial is a First World War memorial in the Cowley area of Oxford in southern England. Designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, it commemorates men of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry killed in the conflict; it was unveiled on Armistice Day, 11 November 1923, and has been a grade II listed building since 1972.
In the aftermath of the First World War and its unprecedented casualties, thousands of war memorials were built across Britain. Amongst the most prominent designers of memorials was the architect Sir Edwin Lutyens, described by Historic England as "the leading English architect of his generation". Lutyens designed the Cenotaph on Whitehall in London, which became the focus for the national Remembrance Sunday commemorations, as well as the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing—the largest British war memorial anywhere in the world—and the Stone of Remembrance which appears in all large Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemeteries and in several of Lutyens' civic war memorials. As well as civic memorials, Lutyens designed multiple war memorials for private companies and individual regiments.
The regiment originally planned a memorial outside its headquarters at Cowley Barracks but was unable to find a suitable site for it. Instead, the memorial was built on a site on Rose Hill in Cowley on land donated by Christ Church College (one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford), the location having been chosen so that the memorial would be visible against the sky.
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