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Guards Crimean War Memorial, Westminster

The Guards Crimean War Memorial is a memorial in St James's, London, that commemorates the Allied victory in the Crimean War of 1853-56. It was unveiled in 1861 and consisted of the statues of three Guardsmen, with a female allegorical figure referred to as Honour. It was cast in bronze from the cannons captured at the siege of Sevastopol. In 1914, the monument was moved northwards to make room for new statues of Florence Nightingale and Sidney Herbert who was Secretary at War during the Crimean War. It is only then that the allegorical figure was referred to as Victory.
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