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A cenotaph is a memorial to a person or group of people whose remains are elsewhere. Following the unprecedented casualties of the First World War, a wave of war memorials was built across many of the affected countries. In Britain, the Cenotaph, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, became the focal point for national commemorations and came to be one of the most influential designs for designs for war memorials in Britain and its empire.

Lutyens himself designed several other cenotaphs in England (and one in Wales), most of them closely resembling London's, and many architects designing war memorials based their designs to some extent on Lutyens' cenotaph.