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*NoTE.These figures do not include casualties among artillerymen of the Great Dominions, which
in killed alone numbered over 7,500 of all ranks.
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tribute to the services of the Royal Artillery in the Great War, mentioning that their
casualties* amounted to
49,076Killed in action or died.
6,689Missing.
129,158Wounded.
In conclusion he stated that those to whom the Memorial is dedicated died while
upholding the spirit of the proud mottoes of their Regiment, Ubique," Quo fas et gloria
ducunt," and finally, in slow resonant tones, recited the wordsTo future generations
of the Royal Regiment cf Artillery, I say
See to it ye that come after,
That their names be not forgotten."
Then, as the screening flags came fluttering to the ground those present could take
in the details of the Memorialthe great stone image of Mother surmounting it, the
first and only heavy howitzer possessed by the British Army at the outbreak of war,
set aloft, a dumb witness of duty well done, in remembrance of those brave men who
died round their guns, serving their King and Country and keeping untarnished the
honour of their Regimentthe carved reliefs, vibrating with all a gunner's passion for
his guns, showing incidents in the every-day life of the artilleryman in the line the
four giant bronze figures placed round the plinth in the form of a crossat the head of it
an officer, the far-away look on whose face and whose whole attitude show the firm
concentrated power of the man who has learned his joband knows at one arm a gunner
carrying ammunition, whose humanity in its gaunt rigidity seems almost to have become
