The Biggest Lie in London? The Guards Crimean War Memorial

A history of then Guards Brigade Crimean War Memorial in Waterloo Place in London.

Victorians referred to it as a “hideous granite pile” and “a standing lie” hoping that the fallen of the Crimea might be honoured with a memorial more “creditable to the arts of the country.” Why was this memorial so disliked? What does the memorial leave out of the history of the fallen of the Crimean War?