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The Great Western Railway War Memorial is a First World War memorial by Charles Sargeant Jagger and Thomas S. Tait. It stands on platform 1 at Paddington station in London, commemorating 2,500 employees of the Great Western Railway (GWR) who were killed in the conflict. One third of the GWR's workforce of almost 80,000 left to fight in the war, the company guaranteeing their jobs. The memorial consists of a bronze statue of a soldier, dressed in heavy winter clothing, reading a letter from home. The statue stands on a polished granite plinth, within a white stone surround. The names of the dead are on a roll buried underneath the plinth. Viscount Churchill, the company chairman, unveiled the memorial on 11 November 1922, in front of the Archbishop of Canterbury, GWR officials, and over 6,000 relatives of the dead. During the COVID-19 pandemic, local communities on the GWR network laid wreaths on trains which carried them to Paddington to be laid at the memorial for Armistice Day.