Charles Sargeant Jagger Charles Sargeant Jagger MC ( 17 December 1885 Kilnhurst , near Rotherham , Yorkshire - 16 November 1934 ) was a British sculptor who , following active service in the First World War , sculpted many works on the theme of war . He is best known for his war memorials , especially the Royal Artillery Memorial at Hyde Park Corner and the Great Western Railway War Memorial in Paddington Railway Station , both of which are in London , and he also designed several other monuments around Britain and other parts of the world . Biography . Jagger was the son of a colliery manager , and was educated at Sheffield Royal Grammar School . At age 14 he became an apprentice metal engraver with the Sheffield firm Mappin and Webb . He studied at the Sheffield School of Art before moving to London to study sculpture at the Royal College of Art ( 1908 – 11 ) under Edouard Lanteri . Jagger worked as Lanteri ' s assistant , and also as instructor in modelling at the Lambeth School of Art . He counted among his friends William Reid Dick and William McMillan . His early works dealt with classical and literary themes and were influenced by the New Sculpture movement in the focus on medievalism and on surface qualities . His student work won him a travelling scholarship that made it possible for him to spend several months in Rome and Venice . In 1914 he won the British Prix de Rome . Both his elder sister , Edith , and his younger brother , David were painters . Military service . When war broke out in 1914 , Jagger gave up his Rome scholarship to join the army . At first , Jagger joined the Artists ' Rifles , and in 1915 he was commissioned in the Worcestershire Regiment . Jagger served in Gallipoli and on the Western Front , and was wounded three times . He was awarded the Military Cross for gallantry . Work as a sculptor . Jagger ' s style tended towards realism , especially his portrayal of soldiers . The fashion at the time was for idealism and modernism in sculpture , but Jagger ' s figures were rugged and workman - like , earning him a reputation for ' realist ' sculpture . Although Jagger was commissioned as a sculptor of a variety of monuments , it is for his war memorials that he is chiefly remembered . Whilst convalescing from war wounds in 1919 , he began work on " No Man ' s Land " , a low relief which is today is part of the Tate Collection . It depicts a " listening post " , a technique of trench warfare in which a soldier would hide among the corpses , broken stretchers and barbed wire of No Man ' s Land , in order to listen for the enemy . His Royal Artillery Memorial ( 1921 – 25 ) at Hyde Park Corner in London is one of his best - known works . It features a giant sculpture of a howitzer surrounded by four bronze soldiers and stone relief scenes , and is dedicated to casualties in the British Royal Regiment of Artillery in World War I . When Jagger was commissioned to work on the Royal Artillery Memorial , he remarked to the " Daily Express " the " experience in the trenches persuaded me of the necessity for frankness and truth " . Monumental works of the period used symbolic figures rather than actual depictions of soldiers . Furthermore , during the war years , a government edict had banned images of dead British soldiers . Jagger defied both these conventions by creating realistic bronze figures of three standing soldiers and the body of a dead soldier laid out and shrouded by a greatcoat . The Gunner became the inspiration for a hero in the children ' s fantasy novel " Stoneheart " by Charlie Fletcher . Jagger was made an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1926 . After the demand for war memorials had subsided , Jagger continued to receive important commissions and his works were increasingly influenced by Art Deco . Some of his works include allegorical stone figures at Imperial Chemical House , London ( 1928 ) and The Kelham Rood ( 1929 ) . In 1931 Jagger was commissioned by architect Edwin Lutyens to design a sculpture of Christ the King for the designs for Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral . The sculpture was never executed because Lutyens ' design was extremely costly and funding for the building work ran out . A model of Lutyens ' unrealised building is displayed in the Walker Art Gallery . Jagger was also commissioned to provide sculptures of elephants and imperial lions for Lutyens ' government buildings in New Delhi , India . Jagger produced many smaller works , such as busts , statuettes , reliefs , and exhibited them at the Royal Academy 1913 - 34 , his work continued to be exhibited posthumously , including at the Glasgow Empire Exhibition in 1938 . Charles Sargeant Jagger died suddenly from pneumonia on 16 November 1934 . He was in the process of finishing a statue of " George V " for New Delhi at his death , and work on it was completed by William Reid Dick . A documentary about Jagger ' s work and featuring this statue of " George V " was in the process of being filmed by Pathe . This was edited into a short two minute filmic obituary which was released under the title " An Unfinished Symphony in Stone . " A touring memorial exhibition was organised by two of his chief patrons in 1935 - 36 ( Freda , Lady Forres and Henry Mond , 2nd Baron Melchett ) . Two years later a second touring exhibition was arranged called " Art of the Jagger Family " , which featured sculptures by Charles Sargeant Jagger together with portraits by his brother , David , ( also highly successful ) and landscapes and flower subjects by his sister , Edith . Thereafter his reputation declined until 1985 - 86 when a large retrospective exhibition entitled " War and Peace Sculpture " was held at the Imperial War Museum , with the Mappin Art Gallery , Sheffield . Selected works . Some of Jagger ' s major commissions include the following : Further reading . ( exhibition catalogue ) ISBN 0 - 901627 - 31 - 3