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London Brain Teaser No 53

Princess Anne unveiled a memorial to Animals in War in November last year. Can you identify these London war memorials?

(a)     It was recently moved from Greenwich back to its former position on Horse Guards Parade. It commemorates a unit created by Winston Churchill in the Great War.    

(b)     George Gilbert Scott designed this memorial to commemorate the old boys of singer Dido's school who fell in conflicts of the 19th century, 

(c)     Five soldiers are portrayed on this memorial in Whitehall Place. Which weapon did they deploy in the World Wars?

(d)     The Commonwealth War Memorial in Constitution Hill contains the name of which foreign, non-Commonwealth, country ?

The solution

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