The Civil Service Rifles War Memorial

MATERIALS: Portland stone with painted stone flags.

DESCRIPTION: the memorial comprises a square column, c4.9m tall, with a shallow cornice on which stands a plinth and urn. The plinth is decorated with laurel leaf swags and panels bearing the inscriptions MCM/ XIV and MCM/ XIX. The column stands on a square, undercut, plinth which itself stands on a platform of two steps. Painted stone flags are raised on either side of the memorial. That to the west is the Union Flag; that to the east, the regimental colours.

The inscriptions are incised into the faces of the column:

(south face) IN MEMORY/ OF THE/ 1240 MEMBERS/ WHO FELL/ WHILE SERVING/ WITH/ THE REGIMENT/ IN/ THE GREAT WAR/ THEIR NAMES/ ARE RECORDED/ ON A SCROLL/ PLACED WITHIN/ THIS COLUMN/ ALSO IN MEMORY/ OF MEMBERS OF/ THE CIVIL SERVICE/ CADET BATTALION

(north face) THIS COLUMN/ WAS ERECTED/ BY THE 15TH/ COUNTY/ OF LONDON/ BATTALION/ THE LONDON/ REGIMENT/ PRINCE OF WALES/ OWN/ CIVIL SERVICE/ RIFLES

Battle honours are inscribed into the face of the upper edge of the undercut plinth:

(south face) FESTUBERT 1915 LOOS SOMME 1916 1918 FLERS COURCELETTE

(west face) DOIRAN 1917 LYS KEMMEL GAZA NEBI SAMWIL JERUSALEM

(north face) ST QUENTIN ALBERT 1918 ANCRE 1918 BAUPAUME 1918 SELLE

(east face) TRANSLOY MESSINES 1917 1918 YPRES 1917 1918 CAMBRAI 1917

The memorial stands on the riverside terrace of Somerset House, overlooking the Victoria Embankment.

This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Online. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 10 February 2017.