Memorials Collection (page 3)

24 British War Memorial photographs in a booklet entitled British War Memorials 1914-1918 - Ypres (Salient. Published in Brussels by E. R. N. Thill. Commemorative Art

King George V examining memorials on the battlefield
King George V visiting the British lines on the Western front and reading the inscription on a memorial to a fallen soldier. The Prince of Wales (later Edward VIII) is in the background. Date: 1914

The Royal Air Force Memorial in silhouette
The Royal Air Force memorial, on the Embankment, London, captured in silhouette. Built in 1923, it is situated on the Victoria Embankment close to Cleopatras Needle

Silhouette portrait of Gilbert Ledward, sculptor
Silhouette portrait of Gilbert Ledward (1888-1960), sculptor of various war memorials, including the Guards Division memorial in St Jamess Park, London. Portrait made in April 1924. Date: 1924

American War Memorial, Gibraltar
American War Memorial (Naval Monument), Gibraltar, relating to the First World War, dedicated in 1937. Date: circa 1930s

Works by Charles Sargeant Jagger, British sculptor
Three works by Charles Sargeant Jagger (1885-1934), British sculptor. At the top: Music, the design which won him the Prix de Rome in 1914. Lower left: Prometheus Bound

Piccadilly Circus in London, with the Shaftesbury Memorial (Eros statue)

Willett Sundial Memorial
WILLIAM WILLETT Willet, Petts Wood, Chislehurst, Kent, England. His campaign for daylight saving led to the Summer Time Act of 1925. Date: 1856 - 1915

Haig Statue, Whitehall
DOUGLAS, 1ST EARL HAIG The fine statue of the British World War One Senior Commander, in front of the Banqueting Hall, Whitehall, Westminster, London. Date: 1861 - 1928

Shelley Monument
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY monument : he died by drowning in a storm off the coast of Italy. Date: 1792 - 1822

Statue of Wellington
DUKE OF WELLINGTON Statue (erected 1844) of Wellington, outside the Bank of England, London, cast in bronze from cannons he captured from the French. Date: 1769 - 1852

Diaz Monument
BARTHOLOMEW DIAZ Monument to the Portuguese explorer, the first European to see the Cape of Good Hope, Cape Town, South Africa. Date: 1450 (?) - 1500

Unveiling of War Memorial by Earl Haig, Alloa, Scotland. A painted bronze sculpture by Pilkington Jackson on a substantial cylindrical stone pedestal

Kruger Family Graves - Pretoria, South Africa Date: circa 1910s

Dover, Delaware, USA - Christ Episcopal Church
Christ Episcopal Church, South State and Water Streets, Dover, Delaware, USA - erected in 1734. In the foreground is the Bonwill Family Obelisk. Date: circa 1920s

Lincoln Memorial Statue
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Bust of the American President by Andrew O Connor, loaned to the Gresham Committee by the Lincoln Presentation Committee. Date: early 1930s

Zulu Wars memorial
Zulu Wars. Memorial cross to Napoleon Joseph, 1880 Date: 1880

Chemnitz. The three memorials. Photograph shows the city hall and the three memorials (left to right: Count Otto von Bismarck; Emperor Wilhelm I, and Generalfeldmarschall von Moltke) on the square

Preparing for the Unveiling of the Victoria Memorial
Officers and banner bearers standing in front of the Queen Victoria Memorial outside Buckingham Palace, still covered in scaffolding but due to be unveiled on 16th May 1911 in the presence of King

Christian Krohg Statue
Memorial statue of Norwegian naturalist painter, author and journalist CHRISTIAN KROHG (1852 - 1925), surrounded by tourists enjoying a drink at an open air cafe, Oslo, Norway Date: late 1960s

Samuel Lister Statue
SAMUEL CUNLIFFE LISTER His statue in Lister Park, Bradford, Yorkshire, England. A prolific inventor of over 150 inventions, including a wool-combing machine. Date: 1815 - 1906

Thomas Smith Memorial
THOMAS GILBERT SMITH The Smith Memorial Seat, beside the A35 road, near Sidford, Devon, England. He fell from his bicycle here and died. Then it thundered. Date: 1848 - 1904

Clive of India Memorial
Memorial statue of Robert Clive, 1st Baron on Plassey ( Clive of India ), King Charles Street, London, England. Date: late 1960s

T. E. Lawrence Effigy
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA This effigy of T.E. Lawrence in St. Martins Church, Wareham, Dorset, is by Eric Kennington. Lawrence is in full Arab dress; head on a camel saddle. Date: 1888 - 1935

Crimea Memorial 1950S
The Crimea Memorial on Lower Regent Street, London, seen from Waterloo Place. Date: 1950s

Van Riebeeck Statue
JOHAN JAN VAN RIEBEECK Statue of the Dutch colonial administrator, credited as the founder of Cape Town, South Africa. Date: 1619 - 1677

The Lever Memorial, outside the Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight, Merseyside, England, in memory of William Hesketh Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme and his wife. Date: 1851 - 1925

The Wallace Stone, at Blairston Mains Farm, near Ayr, Ayrshire, Scotland. It has associations with Sir William Wallace and has a carving of a sword on it. Date: 1950s photo

Criticism of the Queen Victoria Memorial in The Sphere
A page in The Sphere magazine from 1911, which gives a no-holds-barred critique of the newly unveiled Queen Victoria Memorial monument in the Mall, London in front of Buckingham Palace

Statue of Queen Victoria on Queen Victoria Memorial
The statue of the late Queen Victoria, the centrepiece of the Queen Victoria Memorial outside Buckingham Palace, sculpted by Sir Thomas Brock and unveiled on 16 May 1911

Unveiling of the Queen Victoria Memorial
The moment of the unveiling of the Queen Victoria Memorial monument outside Buckingham Palace on 16 May 1911. The monument was sculpted by Sir Thomas Brock

The Antarctic Drama - page from The Sphere
Page from The Sphere which tells of the ill-fated expedition of Captain Scott and his team, showing a picture of the inner tent used by Scott and the others

A suggested site for a memorial to Captain Scott in London, at the bottom of Regent Street, close to the memorial to Sir John Franklin

Westminster Abbey - Poets Corner
Poets Corner at Westminster Abbey, London Date: circa 1910s

The All-India War Memorial, New Delhi
The All-India War Memorial commemorating over 70, 000 Indian soldiers at the entrance to the Kings Way, New Delhi, during the ceremony of its dedication

Suggestion by The Sphere for a monument to Scott
Design reproduced in The Tatler, suggested by the Spheres special artist, Fortunino Matania for a memorial to the late Captain Scott and his companions

Prince Charlie Monument
BONNIE PRINCE CHARLIE His monument at Glenfinnan, Inverness-shire, Scotland, where his Royal Stanard was raised and he read a Declaration in 1745

Scott Memorial
SIR WALTER SCOTT The memorial to Sir Walter Scott in Princes Gardens, Edinburgh, the largest memorial ever built for a British author

Milton Statue, London
JOHN MILTON His statue at Cripplegate, London, England, which was sculpted in bronze by Horace Montford in 1904

Cromwell Statue London
OLIVER CROMWELL His statue outside Westminster Hall, beside the Houses of Parliament, which was sculpted by William Hamo Thornycroft in 1899

Birmingham Nelson Statue
This monument to LORD HORATIO NELSON, next to the (now demolished) Bull Ring, Birmingham, England, was sculpted in 1809 by Sir Richard Westmacott, R.A

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