Royal Berkshire Regiment War Memorial
| Royal Berkshire Regiment War Memorial | |
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| United Kingdom | |
| For men of the Royal Berkshire Regiment killed in the First World War | |
| Unveiled | 13 September 1921 |
| Location |
51°27′30″N 1°00′16″W / 51.458274°N 1.004418°WCoordinates: 51°27′30″N 1°00′16″W / 51.458274°N 1.004418°W Brock Barracks, Reading, Berkshire |
| Designed by | Sir Edwin Lutyens |
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Listed Building – Grade II*
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| Official name | The Royal Berkshire Regiment Cenotaph |
| Designated | 22 December 1975 |
| Reference no. | 1321912 |
The Royal Berkshire Regiment War Memorial or Royal Berkshire Regiment Cenotaph is a First World War memorial dedicated to members of the Royal Berkshire Regiment and located in Brock Barracks in Reading, Berkshire, in south-east England. Unveiled in 1921, the memorial was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, based on his design for the Cenotaph on Whitehall in London, and is today a grade II* listed building.
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. The Royal Berkshire Regiment memorial is one of seven cenotaphs in England designed by Lutyens besides the one on Whitehall, and one of two to serve as a memorial for a regiment (the other being the Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment Cenotaph in Maidstone, though the Welch Regiment War Memorial in Cardiff, Wales, is also a regimental memorial in the form of a cenotaph).
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