Military & Memorials
Machine Gun Corps Memorial
A nude David rests on Goliath's sword between two real Vickers guns wreathed in bronze. The inscription — 'Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands' — has always been uneasy reading, which is part of the memorial's point.
- Subject
- The Machine Gun Corps of the First World War
- Sculptor
- Francis Derwent Wood
- Unveiled
- 1925
- Material
- Bronze and marble
- Location
- Hyde Park Corner
- Area
- Hyde Park Corner
