When he died, Sir Edwin Lutyens (1869-1944) was the leading architect in the United Kingdom. He had established his fame with the hundred or so country houses he had designed, mainly in Britain and Ireland. From 1912, his fame rose as he was appointed chief architect of New Delhi, the new capital of the then British colony of India, alongside Herbert Baker.

In 1917, when work on Delhi stopped because of World War I, Lutyens was appointed as one of the architects of British monuments and cemeteries in France and Belgium. Although these 130 memorials are his most important works outside the English-speaking world, his name is still known to few in continental Europe.

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