Close to Downing Street, in the centre of Whitehall, is the National Monument to the Women of the Second World War. 17 individual sets of clothing and uniforms around the sides, symbolise the many different jobs women undertook in World War II.   ///zips.scared.forms

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office on the corner of Downing Street was designed in an Italianate style by George Gilbert Scott, and completed in 1868. Scott is better known for his work on St. Pancras Railway Station and the Albert Memorial in Hyde Park.

As you walk up to Downing Street you will pass the Cenotaph, Britain’s national memorial to its war dead, erected in 1919. It was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and replaced his original and identical wood-and-plaster cenotaph erected in 1919 for the Allied Victory Parade. Intended to commemorate the victims of the First World War, it now commemorates the dead in all wars in which British servicemen and women have fought. The design was used in the construction of many other war memorials throughout the British Empire and Commonwealth.   ///dome.lions.vouch

The National Remembrance Day Service takes place here on November 11 attended by the Royal Family, Leaders of the British Political Parties, Veterans from the armed forces and their families.  British and Commonwealth citizens join them to…

    ‘…pay tribute to the men and women of the Second World War generation, and to those of today’s, who have served and sacrificed to defend our nation. We remember the collaboration of the Commonwealth and Allied nations who stood shoulder to shoulder then to secure our freedom and the communities coming together today to protect us all.’