Royal Tank Regiment Memorial
| Royal Tank Regiment Memorial | |
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| United Kingdom | |
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| For the men of the Royal Tank Regiment and its predecessors the Heavy Section and Heavy Branch of the Machine Gun Corps, the Tank Corps, and the Royal Tank Corps | |
| Unveiled | 13 June 2000 |
| Location | Whitehall Court (overlooking Whitehall Place), London |
| Designed by | Vivien Mallock after George Henry Paulin (sculpture) Christopher Rainsford for HOK International |
The Royal Tank Regiment Memorial is a sculpture by Vivien Mallock in Whitehall Court, London. It commemorates the Royal Tank Regiment.
The sculptural group depicts the five-man crew of a World War II–era Comet tank at 1½ times life size.[1] General Sir Antony Walker, who was in charge of fundraising for the memorial, described it as "a memorial to the men of the regiment, rather than the machines".[2] It is an enlarged version of a maquette by George Henry Paulin in the Tank Museum, Bovington, Dorset, which dates to 1953. Mallock's husband had been an officer in the RTR in the 1960s.[2] A resin cast of Mallock's group also stands outside the Tank Museum.[2]
The memorial was unveiled by Queen Elizabeth II, Colonel-in-Chief of the RTR, on 13 June 2000. She was escorted to the ceremony by an armoured Rolls-Royce from 1924, a precursor to the tank. The date was the centenary of a battle in the Second Boer War in which the tank pioneer Sir Ernest Dunlop Swinton took part.[2] Other memorials to the RTR are in Newcastle-upon-Tyne[3] and the National Memorial Arboretum in Alrewas, Staffordshire.
Gallery
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Bovington Tank Museum, Dorset -
The RTR memorial in the National Memorial Arboretum
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References
[edit]- ^ "Royal Tank Regiment Memorial", Vivien Mallock Bronze Sculptor, retrieved 8 July 2016
- ^ a b c d Ward-Jackson, Philip (2011), Public Sculpture of Historic Westminster: Volume 1, Public Sculpture of Britain, vol. 14, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, pp. 430–32, ISBN 978-1-84631-691-3
- ^ Historic England, "Royal Tank Regiment War Memorial (1355210)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 8 July 2016
External links
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Media related to Royal Tank Regiment Memorial, Whitehall Place at Wikimedia Commons
