Originally commemorating the formal end of fighting in the First World War (on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918) the Cenotaph in Whitehall encompassed the remembrance of the dead from subsequent wars.
The Cenotaph, designed by Lutyens and completed in 1920, was a stepped and canted obelisk with minimal ornamentation, whose largest angled planes, if projected vertically, would meet at a single point exactly one mile above the base.
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