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Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2010 8:11 am Post subject: Guards Memorial, St James' Park, London |
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Title: Guards Memorial
Location: St James' Park, Horse Guards Road, London
OS Ref: TQ299800
UKNIWM Ref: 11359
To the glory of God
and in memory of the
officers, warrant officers,
non commissioned officers &
guardsmen of His Majesty's
Regiments of Foot Guards
who gave their lives for their
King and Country during the
Great War 1914-1918 and of the
officers, warrant officers,
non commissioned officers and
men if the Household Cavalry,
Royal Regiment of Artillery,
Corps of Royal Engineers,
Royal Army Service Corps, Royal
Army Medical Corps and other
units who while serving with
the Guards Division in France &
Belgium 1915-1918 fell with them in
the fight for the World's freedom.
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This memorial also commemorates all those members
of the Household Division who died in the Second World War
and in the service of their country since 1918.
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This monument
was erected by their friends and comrades.
Unfortunately I have no photos of the panels on the other sides of this memorial.
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Adam Brown Curator
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Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2010 10:33 pm Post subject: |
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ADP
Many thanks for posting this memorial. I had hoped to get a photograph of the Scots Guards statue on this memorial.
maybe next time I am in London!
Thanks again.
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Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2010 7:13 am Post subject: |
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Hi Adam,
See below the close-up cropped from the photo above.
Assuming the five statues are standing above their respective regimental badges, they are Grenadier Guards, Scots Guards, Welsh Guards, Irish Guards and Coldstream Guards.
The Roll of Honour website lists them (although not in the same sequence) and gives information about the individuals who modelled for these statues.
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Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2010 7:37 am Post subject: |
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From The Scotsman, Monday 18th October 1926.
GUARDS' MEMORIAL
UNVEILED IN LONDON
IMPRESSIVE CEREMONIES
Since the unveiling of the Cenotaph in Whitehall there has been no more significant or impressive ceremony in connection with the Great War than the unveiling of the memorial to the Guards Division on the Horse Guards Parade, London, which performed by the Duke of Connaught, the senior Colonel of the Brigade of Guards, on Saturday morning. Happily the weather had improved, and though no vagaries of climate or weather could have affected the significance of this moving ceremony, the spectacular effect of an outdoor function would have been greatly marred by a repetition of Friday's dreary skies and drenching rain.
The memorial takes the form of a Cenotaph of Portland stone, erected on a granite base, and ornamented with figures in bronze and gun metal obtained from guns which the Guards Division captured from the Germans at various times. It is recessed in to St James's Park, and is in a direct line with the central roadway across the Horse Guards Parade, and faces towards the Horse Guards.
(the article continues at length)
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