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Code
DS/UK/45
Dates
1886-1966
Person Name
Rees; Verner Owen (1886-1966); architect
Surname
Rees
Forenames
Verner Owen
Epithet
architect
Source
The information in the above entry has been used with permission kindly granted by Gavin Stamp, author of Silent Cities (London: Royal Institute of British Architects, 1977).
Other sources include: 1911 England Census for Verner Owen Rees, Accessed via Ancestry UK website on 24/04/2017.
Biographical Note
Verner Owen Rees was a British architect who, along with G.H. Holt, won the competition to design the Commission's Memorial to the Missing at Soissons, France.
Verner Owen Rees was born in 1886. He trained with Caroe and Passmore and was Assistant to Sir Edwin Lutyens between 1910 and 12. Rees then worked in New York.
During the First World War, Rees served in the Artists' Rifles. In 1925, he won a competition, with G.H. Holt for the Memorial to the Missing at Soissons in 1925, with sculpture by Eric Kennington. Rees also designed the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, (with P. Morley Horder (1925). Rees was President of the Architectural Association (AA) (1938-1939).
He died in 1966.
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