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
The Cenotaph, Cape Town are written in English and Afrikaans. The memorial stands on a square granite base. The design of the memorial is similar to that of the Diamond War Memorial erected in Derry, Northern Ireland in 1927, which was also designed by March. The Cenotaph is located on the Heerengracht Street median at the street's intersection with Herzog Boulevard in Cape Town's city centre, on the city's main boulevard. It has been relocated twice to facilitate development of the city's transport infrastructure, in 1959 and 2013. It was first erected at the bottom of Adderley Street in 1924. In 1959 it was