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The Machine Gun Corps Memorial, at Hyde Park Corner, is a memorial to the dead of the Machine Gun Corps in the First World War in London. It is topped with a nude statue of a young David by Francis Derwent Wood.

The inscription reads:
ERECTED TO
COMMEMORATE
THE GLORIOUS
HEROES
OF THE
MACHINE GUN
CORPS
WHO FELL IN
THE GREAT
WAR
Saul has slain his thousands
but David his tens of thousands

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To either side of the statue is a real Vickers gun, encased in bronze and laurel-wreathed. The memorial was originally erected in 1925 next to Grosvenor Place; it was rededicated at its present location, in the central section of Hyde Park Corner, in 1963 (Link Wikipedia).