The phrase "a memorial of a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to something that serves as a remembrance or tribute to a person, event, or idea.
Example: "The statue stands as a memorial of a great leader who inspired many."
Alternatives: "a tribute to a" or "a commemoration of a".
While he was still alive to appreciate the honour and the irony, Wilder became an icon, a memorial of a golden age in the American cinema.
Fittingly perhaps for a memorial of a man who was notoriously secretive, the precise location of the event and its guest list is under wraps.
His work is a memorial of a specially privileged era, where the duties of a fashion photographer and the ambitions of an artist could coexist in one serenely realized surface, an age that in retrospect seems to have been one of fine silver, coolly applied.
The elegant Belle Époque world of courtesans and the social distinctions that render Magda's secret so shameful were casualties of World War I. "La Rondine" emerged from the war as profoundly elegiac, its prolonged incubation rendering it instantly outdated, a memorial of a more pleasurable and sensuous world.
In the opening tableau, enacted on the floor of an arid terrarium, a puppet soldier, dwarfed by the black-clad, expressionless puppeteer behind him, emerges from a sand bank and constructs a memorial of a flag, a star, a helmet and a cross.
Bella died aged 56, and it was only after her death that her vivid Yiddish memoir of a childhood in Vitebsk was published; Chagall's own work is not just a celebration of a lost Jewish culture but also a memorial of a vanished world and a people – many of whose names remain unknown – who disappeared.
The empty bed suggests a memorial of some kind, perhaps to a dead child.
For two months after his death, employees maintained a memorial of flowers and a candle in the bakery department.
A block away, a memorial of votive candles and whiskey bottles marked the site of a fatal shooting more than a week ago, residents said.
The only thing keeping it from utter obscurity is its association with a parkway -- a memorial of dubious effectiveness, as Major Deegan might put it.
It is especially important for a memorial of this kind to find a center of harmony for all individuals and all groups.
