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Menin Gate
Menin Gate (Menenpoort), Ypres (Ieper), Belgium: Commonwealth War Graves Commission memorial to the Missing designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield, unveiled 24 July 1927, bearing nearly 55,000 names, with the nightly Last Post since 1929.
National War Memorial (India)
The National War Memorial (Rashtriya Samar Smarak) in New Delhi honors Indian soldiers killed since independence; it was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2019.
Nike (Monument at Marathon)
Nike (Monument at Marathon): reconstructed crowning statue of a roughly 10 m Pentelic Ionic column on the plain of Marathon, identified by Eugene Vanderpool in 1966, commemorating the Athenian victory of 490 BC and matching Pausanias's white marble trophy.
Open-air display of Great Patriotic War military equipment
Пляцоўка баявой тэхнікі часоў Вялікай Айчыннай вайны: open-air displays of WWII-era Soviet combat equipment at memorials such as Loyev's Battle of the Dnieper museum, Stalin Line, and the Minsk war museum, showing T-34, IS tanks, Katyushas, and artillery.
Queenstown, South Africa
Queenstown, officially renamed Komani in 2016, is an Eastern Cape town founded in 1853 as a British frontier military outpost, laid out around a unique central hexagon and named after Queen Victoria.
Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall and Museum
Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall and Museum, Pittsburgh's Beaux-Arts veterans memorial on Fifth Avenue in Oakland, opened 1910, designed by Henry Hornbostel after the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, with a 2,500-seat auditorium and Hall of Valor.
Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument (Cleveland)
The Cuyahoga County Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, dedicated July 4, 1894 on Cleveland's Public Square, honors about 9,000 county Civil War Union veterans; designed by Levi T. Scofield with bronze service groups and a Liberty statue.
Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument (Indianapolis)
Indiana State Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, Monument Circle, Indianapolis: 284 ft 6 in limestone Civil War memorial by Bruno Schmitz, built 1888–1901, dedicated 1902, crowned by the bronze Victory.
Soviet War Memorial (Treptower Park)
Soviet War Memorial (Treptower Park), Sowjetisches Ehrenmal im Treptower Park: Berlin war memorial and cemetery for Red Army soldiers of the Battle of Berlin, built 1946–1949, largest Soviet memorial in Germany, with Vuchetich's soldier statue.
The Cenotaph
The Cenotaph, also known as the Whitehall Cenotaph, is Britain's principal national war memorial in Whitehall, London. Designed by Edwin Lutyens, it commemorates the dead of the world wars.
Thiepval Memorial
Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme: Lutyens-designed CWGC memorial in France, largest British war memorial, bearing over 72,000 names of Somme soldiers with no known grave, unveiled 1932.
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier (Arlington)
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery: memorial holding three unknown American service members (WWI, WWII, Korea), dedicated November 11, 1921, guarded 24/7 by The Old Guard Sentinels.
Tropaeum Traiani (monument)
Tropaeum Traiani, the Trophy of Trajan at Adamclisi, Romania, is a Roman triumphal monument completed in 109 CE after the Dacian Wars, a 40 m cylindrical drum with 54 battle metopes, now a 1977 reconstruction.
USS Arizona Memorial
USS Arizona Memorial, the 1962 white concrete memorial at Pearl Harbor, Oahu, spanning the sunken battleship USS Arizona and commemorating its 1,177 dead from the December 7, 1941 attack; designed by Alfred Preis, NPS-managed since 1980.
War Memorial (The Response)
War Memorial (The Response), Grade I listed 1923 bronze-and-granite memorial by Sir W. Goscombe John at Barras Bridge, Newcastle, commemorating the Northumberland Fusiliers' Commercials battalions; distinct from Canada's Ottawa National War Memorial of the same name.
World War I memorials by country and region
World War I memorials by country and region surveys the monuments raised after 1918 in Australia, Canada, England, France, and the United States, with Germany as a contrast.