War Memorials
In the entrance portico are two war memorials. One is in memory of the students of the Royal Academy Schools who fell in World War I and the second commemorates the 2003 men of the Artists Rifles who gave their lives in the Great War with a further plaque to those who died in World War II.
The Artists Rifles, founded in 1860, had its first headquarters at Burlington House. Four members of the Artists Rifles were elected President of the Royal Academy.
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And feats of war defeats
With plain heroic magnitude of mind
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