Hyde Park Corner (Royal Berks) Cemetery is situated in Ploegsteert Wood, on the
ArmentièresMessines Road, in the vicinity of "Hyde Park Corner"the name given to the
adjoining cross-road during the War.
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undisturbed and pay their tribute to those whose graves are not known. In
addition to commemorating the missing dead, it is a Memorial to the feats of
arms of the forces or units engaged in the years 1914-1918 in this area.
The following inscription will be engraved on the memorial in English and on
the lion bases in French and Flemish:
"To the Glory of God and to the memory of 11,090 officers and men
of the forces of the British Empire who fell fighting in the years 1914-1918
between the River Douve and the Towns of Estaires and Fournes, whose
names are here recorded but to whom the fortune of war denied the
known and honoured burial given to their comrades in death."
Facing the road, three bays of the colonnade are left open to form the principal
entrance, and on each of the sides are openings which conditct on the one side to
the Hyde Park Corner (Royal Berks) Cemetery,* where is placed the Stone of
Remembrance, and on the other to an avenue which is terminated by the Great
Cross.
THE Memorial at Berks Cemetery Extension, the architect of which is Mr. H.
Charlton Bradshaw, A.R.I.B.A., and the sculptor Professor Gilbert
Ledward, commemorates the missing dead of the battles and trench warfare
in the ArmentièresLillePloegsteert area.
The entrance is flanked by two lions carved in stone. The monument takes
the form of a circular peristyle, or colonnade, within which will be engraved the
names of approximately 12,000 men of all ranks. The colonnade is slightly raised
above the level of the ground, and is covered, but the centre is open to the sky.
The whole is primarily a sacred enclosure where the living may come to remember
