Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment Cenotaph Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment Cenotaph The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment Cenotaph is a First World War memorial dedicated to members of the Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment and located in Maidstone in Kent, south-eastern England. Unveiled in 1921, the memorial was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens following 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
Southampton Cenotaph who had died in later conflicts. The Memorial Wall included a total of 2,368 names from the First World War, 927 from the Second World War and four from subsequent conflicts. This addition to the Cenotaph was opened on 11 December 2011. A small memorial, consisting of a cast metal plaque mounted on a concrete plinth, situated in one corner of the square, commemorates four men from Southampton killed fighting in the International Brigades in the Civil War in Spain, 1936 – 1939. Southampton Cenotaph The Southampton Cenotaph is a stone memorial at Watts Park in Southampton, England, originally dedicated