Verner O. Rees


(1886-1966)

Trained with Caroe & Passmore. Assistant to Lutyens 1910-12, then to New York. In Artist's Rifles during the War. Won competition, with G.H. Holt, for Memorial to the Missing at Soissons, 1925; design executed by Commonwealth War Graves Commission, sculpture by Eric Kennington. Also designed London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, (with P. Morley Horder), 1925. President of A.A. 1938-39. Died 1966.

The above information was kindly supplied by Gavin Stamp and used with his permission

Soissons Memorial

France