Memorial Collection (#36)

Lord Ventry, left, and W. N. Alcock receive R38 Memorial ?
Lord Ventry, left, and W.N. Alcock receive R38 Memorial Fund Awards at the Royal Aeronautical Society AGM on 5 May 1955

Pioneers Memorial, Gundagal New South Wales, Australia
Pioneers Memorial, Gundagal, New South Wales, Australia. Date: circa 1930s

London - Crimean War Memorial and the Athenaeum Club
London - Crimean War Memorial (to the Brigade of Guards) - pulled down and now re-located close by (in 1914). The original was sculpted by John Bell (1811-1895)

Scottish American War Memorial, West Princes Street Gardens
Scottish American War Memorial (1927), West Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh - The Spirit of 1914. The Sculptor was Robert Tait McKenzie (1867-1938). Date: circa 1940

Memorial Temple of the Great Earthquake of 1923 - Tokyo, Japan. This earthquake devastated Tokyo, the port city of Yokohama, and the surrounding prefectures of Chiba, Kanagawa, and Shizuoka

Memorial statue to Prince Ito, Kobe, Japan
Memorial statue to Prince Ito Hirobumi (1841-1909), Kobe, Japan. Prince Ito Hirobumi was a samurai of Choshu domain, Japanese statesman, four time Prime Minister of Japan

I. E. Repins Studio, Penaty Memorial Estate, Repino
The Studio of Ilya Yefimovich Repin at the Penaty (Penates) Estate in the seaside suburb of Repino (formerly Kuokkala and under Finnish control), St

St. Pauls, London - 1st Remebrance Day - 2 minutes silence
On 11th November 1919, the first anniversary of Armistice day, the Britsh nation, in response to an invitation by King George V

Kyoto, Japan - Kimozuji Dera Temple Complex - Sacred stones - Memorial to the suicide (by drowning) of Saigo and Gessho. Date: circa 1905

Khakimi at-Termez Complex - Termez, Uzbekistan
Termez, Uzbekistan - The cult and memorial complex Khakimi at-Termezi developed around the tomb of the scholar and sheikh Abu Abdal-lah Mukhammad Termezi Date: circa 1960s

Portsmouth WW1 War Memorial - To Our Sailors
The Guildhall Square Cenotaph, Portsmouth - World War One Memorial - To Our Sailors - Sailor manning a machine gun. Date: circa 1920

The Cenotaph, Whitehall, London - looking North
The Cenotaph, Whitehall, London. Designed by Edwin Lutyens, the permanent structure was built from Portland stone between 1919 and 1920 by Holland, Hannen & Cubitts

Florence Nightingale Monument, Waterloo Place, Westminster
The Florence Nightingale Monument, Waterloo Place, Westminster, London (just off The Mall) - erected in memory of the famous Crimean War nurse, known as the Lady of the Lamp

Memorial to Otto von Bismarck at the Feldberg, Germany
Memorial to Count Otto von Bismarck at the Feldberg, on the Seebuck Peak, Baden-Wurttemburg, Germany (in the Black Forest (Schwarzwald)). Date: circa 1904

Shanghai, China - Bund, Palace Hotel, German Club and Iltis Monument (Memorial to German sailors who went down on on the Cruiser Iltis. Date: circa 1909

4th Battalion of the Seaforth Highlanders, Dingwall
4th Battalion of the Seaforth Highlanders Memorial Cross erected after the Battle of Cambrai during WW1 - brought over from France in 1924 and erected near the Railway Station in Dingwall

South Africa - Rand Regiments War Memorial, Johannesburg Date: circa 1910s

The Cenotaph, Blackpool, Lancashire - dedicated in 1923. Date: 1923

France - Pas-de-Calais Department - Montreuil sur-Mer - Monument on Place Gambetta, near the Hotel-Dieu in memory of the men of Montreuil lost in the Franco-Prussian War in 1870-71. Erected in 1913

German aviator Memorial Day at Furth, Bavaria, Germany
Postcard celebrating the German aviator Memorial Day at Furth, Bavaria, Germany (near Nuremberg). Date: 1924

WW1 - The Canadian National Vimy Memorial
The Canadian National Vimy Memorial is a memorial site in France dedicated to the memory of Canadian Expeditionary Force members killed during the First World War

War Memorial - Wellington, New Zealand Date: circa 1920s

Whittington Stone - Highgate Hill, London - where Dick Whittington heard the Bow Bells Date: circa 1940

Palais des Nations, Geneva - Commemorative Plaque in memory of US President Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924). Date: circa early 1930s

The Guards Memorial, Horse Guards Parade, London
The Guards Memorial, opposite Horse Guards Parade, London. Designed by the sculptor Gilbert Ledward in 192326 and erected to commemorate the First Battle of Ypres and other battles of World War I

Queen Victoria Memorial - The Mall, London
Queen Victoria Memorial - unveiled - The Mall, London, opposite Buckingham Palace. Designed by Thomas Brock, the Memorial was dedicated in May 1911 by George V and his first cousin

Queen Victoria Memorial - unveiled - The Mall, London. Designed by Thomas Brock, the Memorial was dedicated in May 1911 by George V and his first cousin, Wilhelm II of Germany. Date: 1911

The dedication of the Cenotaph. Whitehall, London
The Cenotaph, Whitehall, London. Designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, the permanent structure was built from Portland stone between 1919 and 1920 by Holland, Hannen & Cubitts

John Bull coming to the aid of Victims of Messina Earthquake
John Bull coming to the aid of the personification of Italy (Italia Turrita) following the devastating earthquake and tsunami of 27-28th December 1908 at Messina, Sicily

The Laboe Naval Memorial - Germany
The Laboe Naval Memorial (Laboe Tower) - a memorial located in Laboe, near Kiel, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Started in 1927 and completed in 1936

Statue of Gounod in the Monceau Park, Paris, France
Statue of Charles Gounod (1818-1893) - French Composer - in the Monceau Park, Paris, France by sculptor Antonin Mercie (1902). Date: circa 1905

Pere Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, France - Wall of the Federes (Combatants of the Paris Commune who were shot and thrown in an open trench at the foot of this wall in 1871)

Unusual Epitaph in Christchurch Priory, Dorset. Sally Wiiliams died of Grief the 8th April 1836 Aged 79 years. Date: circa 1910s

Mayflower memorial stone and Tablet, Plymouth, England
The Mayflower memorial stone and Tablet, Plymouth, England. This Pilgrim ship made the historic voyage in 1620 from Plymouth to the New World

Arlington, Virginia, USA - Memorial Amphitheatre Date: 1920

Washington DC, USA - Lincoln Memorial from Potomac
Washington DC, USA - Lincoln Memorial from across the Potomac River. Date: 1920

Washington DC, USA - Memorial Continental Hall Date: 1920

Scottish National War Memorial - Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig
Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig (1861-1928) - carved profile portrait on the Scottish National War Memorial - The Haig Memorial. A gift of the British Legon in Scotland

The Cenotaph before unveiling
The Cenotaph, Whitehall, London before unveiling on 11th November 1920. Date: 1920

France - St Malo - The Emerald Coast - Tomb of Chateaubriand. FrancO© s-Renevicomte de Chateaubriand (17681848) was a French writer, politician, diplomat and historian

White Monument - site of death Captian James Cook - Hawaii
A white obelisk on the shore of Kealakekua Bay State Historical Park memorialises the death of Captain James Cook was killed here in a skirmish with native Hawaiians in 1779. Date: circa 1930s

John Frank Stevens - Discovered Marias Pass over the Rockies
John Frank Stevens (1853-1943) - an American engineer who built the Great Northern Railway in the United States and was chief engineer on the Panama Canal between 1905 and 1907

Westminster Abbey, London - The West Front and Towers. The towers were designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor, a pupil of Sir Christopher Wren and completed in circa 1745

Neuilly-sur-Seine, France - Balloonists Monument
Neuilly-sur-Seine in the western suburbs of Paris, France - Porte du Ternes and Monument des Aeronautes (Monument to the Aeronauts and Pigeons of the Siege of Paris). Date: circa 1901

Cape Town, South Africa - WWI War Memorial Date: circa 1930s

Royal Artillery Memorial, Hyde Park Corner, London
The Royal Artillery Memorial - a stone memorial at Hyde Park Corner in London, dedicated to casualties in the Royal Regiment of Artillery during WWI - designed by Charles Jagger and Lionel Pearson

The unveiling of the Joseph Cowen Memorial - Newcastle
The unveiling of the Memorial to Joseph Cowen (1829-1900) at Fenkle Street in Newcastle - Radical politician and MP for Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Owner of the Daily Chronicle newspaper. Date: 1908

America depicted on the Albert Memorial, Hyde Park, London Date: 1904

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