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The Maiwand Lion is a sculpture and war memorial in the Forbury Gardens a public park in the town of Reading in the English county of Berkshire. The statue was named after the Battle of Maiwand and was erected in 1886 to commemorate the deaths of 329 men from the 66th (Berkshire) Regiment of Foot during the campaign in Afghanistan between 1878 and 1880.
