The right-wing newspapers nevertheless lambasted him consistently for what they saw as his bohemian eccentricity, attacking him for wearing what they described as a " donkey jacket " ( actually he wore a type of duffel coat ) at the wreath-laying ceremony at the Cenotaph on Remembrance Day in November 1981, for which he was likened to an " out-of-work navvy " by one of Labour's own MPs.

The Georgetown Cenotaph, at Main and Church Streets, was built in 1923.

It was commissioned in 1783 by the Earl Fitzwilliam as a memorial to the late first Marquess of Rockingham ; it was designed by John Carr, whose first design, for an obelisk, was rejected, in favour of an adaptation of the Roman Cenotaph of the Julii at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, near Arles.

In 2005 a national Monument to the Women of World War II was erected a short distance north of the Cenotaph in the middle of the Whitehall carriageway.

These included the plaster Cenotaph, designed by the noted British architect Sir Edwin Lutyens, for the Allied Victory parade in London, and it was so successful that it was reproduced in stone, and still stands.

The park is a triangular " garden of remembrance " with a Cenotaph, and was opened in 25 April 1951.

A limestone replica of the Cenotaph at Whitehall in London was erected outside the Cabinet Building in Hamilton, Bermuda in 1920.

The concrete Memorial Cenotaph at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park was designed by Kenzo Tange to commemorate the 200, 000 victims of the August 1945 atomic bomb attack.

The eastern side of the square itself is flanked by two lawns and is also the site of the city's Cenotaph, which was designed by JJ Burnet and originally built to commemorate Glaswegians killed in the First World War when it was erected in 1922 by the Earl Haig Fund.

* On 7 September 2008, a plaque in Slim's memory, and those who served with him, was unveiled at the Cenotaph in his native Bristol.

After the war, Martin Place was selected as the site for the Sydney Cenotaph which honours the dead and remains a focus for ANZAC Day commemorations in the city to this day.

The Cenotaph, a replica of the Cenotaph in Whitehall, London, was unveiled on May 24, 1923 ( Empire Day ) by the Governor Sir Reginald Edward Stubbs.

It was used for an outside broadcasting by the BBC, for the first time, on Armistice Day 1937, when the general public could watch in a television set how the King lay a wreath at the Cenotaph.

Wallace Hartley, lead member of the orchestra on board the Titanic was brought up and buried in Colne and has a memorial near the Library Cenotaph.

That was the last time a First World War veteran marched past the Cenotaph and it marked the end of an era.

He did not attend the 2006 Remembrance Day parade on 11 November at the Cenotaph as he was in France at a wreath-laying ceremony and to receive the Freedom of The Town of Saint-Omer.

In 2008 Sinn Fein councillor Billy Leonard claimed that convicted loyalist murderer and a member of the Ulster Freedom Fighters unit which carried out the Greysteel massacre, Torrens Knight was a member of the Kilrea branch of the Apprentice Boys and had laid a wreath at the village Cenotaph. This was denied by a spokesman for the group and by Knight himself. The organisation demanded an explanation and an apology from Sinn Fein for making the claims.

In 2002 the Cenotaph was given a refurbishment and was re-dedicated.

Cenotaph to Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen | Maria Christina of Austria in the Augustinerkirche, by Canova

After the service, there is a parade of veterans, who also lay wreaths at the foot of the Cenotaph as they pass, and a salute is taken by a member of the Royal Family at Horse Guards Parade.

The Hong Kong Police Force Pipe Band | Hong Kong Police Band at the memorial service by The Cenotaph ( Hong Kong ) | the Cenotaph in Central, Hong Kong

Though not a public holiday since July 1997, Remembrance Sunday is observed in Hong Kong, and is marked by a multi-faith memorial service at the Cenotaph in Central, Hong Kong.

* Complete variation performed by the Massed Bands of the Household Cavalry at the 2007 Remembrance Day at the Cenotaph.

In recent years Armistice Day has become increasingly recognised, and many people now attend the 11am ceremony at the Cenotaph in London-an event organised by The Western Front Association, a UK charity dedicated to perpetuating the memory of those who served in the First World War.

* November 8 – Memorial service broadcast from the Cenotaph by the BBC, using tele-recording for the first time.

After the ceremony, a parade of veterans, organised by the Royal British Legion, marches past the Cenotaph, each section of which lays a wreath as it passes.

However, since 2001 there has been a campaign by the United Kingdom's Overseas Territories Association for the right to lay a wreath themselves at the annual service at the Cenotaph.

In Canada, major cenotaphs inspired by Lutyen's memorial in Whitehall, London, commemorating the nation's war dead in World War I and later conflicts include the National War Memorial ( a cenotaph surmounted by a bronze sculpture entitled " The Response ") in Ottawa ; Montreal, Toronto, Hamilton, Victoria and the Victory Square Cenotaph, in Vancouver, British Columbia.

* The Secret of the Cenotaph by Andrew Crompton, 1999

Also close by are Downing Street, the Cenotaph, Westminster Millennium Pier, the Treasury, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Supreme Court.

For various reasons connected with their character, the same may be said to apply to certain governmental memorials in the United Kingdom ( the Cenotaph in London, relating to the Empire in general, and the Scottish National War Memorial in Edinburgh, also with a reference to the Empire, but with particular connections to the United Kingdom, having been opened by the Prince of Wales in 1927 and with the King and the Queen the first visitors and contributors of a casket of the Scottish names for addition within the Shrine ).

In the centre of the floor of the Hall of Heroes is a large circular opening through which the Cenotaph in the Cenotaph Hall can be viewed.

It is also liable to be deployed on exercises such as Exercise Trade Winds ( in the Caribbean ), to take part in November Ceremonies at the Cenotaph in London, or conduct cross-training with the USMC during the biannual Exercise Tartan Eagle.

It does not translate easily: " Holocaust Cenotaph " would be one sense, but the noun Mahnmal, which is distinct from the term Denkmal ( typically used to translate " memorial ") carries the sense of " admonition ," " urging ," " appeal ," or " warning " rather than " remembrance " as such.

* A funeral march, formerly attributed to Beethoven ( WoO Anhang 13 ), believed to be by Johann Heinrich Walch, played at the Remembrance Day Cenotaph Service.

Lutyens ' sent in three designs, each costed at less than £ 15, 000 ( less than £ 607, 000 in 2009 terms ), but they were felt to be too similar to the Cenotaph and to give insufficient prominence to the artillery.

Most First World War memorials reacted to the criticism of this approach by adopting cleaner architectural forms, but still retaining the ideal of a " beautiful death ", an approach which can be seen at Lutyens ' Southampton War Memorial, the precursor to his more famous Cenotaph in London.

Using what historian John Glaves-Smith describes as themes of " endurance and sacrifice, not dynamism and conflict ", the memorial can be felt to speak to its audience about the experience of war in a way that the Cenotaph, for example, does not.

These voices eventually held sway, and the memorial came to be popularly termed " the special Cenotaph of the Gunners ", with Lord Edward Gleichen praising it in 1928 as " a strikingly imaginative and most worthy representation ".

For the most formal occasions, such as the ( British ) Remembrance Day service at the Cenotaph in London, a traditional black Geneva preaching gown, academic hood and bands may be worn.

At age 10 in August 1995, Prince Harry attended the 50th anniversary of Victory over Japan Day at the Cenotaph in London and saluted the officers in the military parade, one of the most important ceremonies in the royal family agenda.

File: VictorySquare 1932. jpg | Cenotaph ( Victoria ) Victory Square, Vancouver Vancouver, British Columbia

File: VictorySquare 1932. jpg | Cenotaph ( Victoria ), Victory Square, Vancouver, British Columbia

In the 1960s, Jalan Tugu was Cenotaph Road named after a monument that was located at the intersection of the road and Victory Avenue which is now called Jalan Sultan Hishamuddin.