war memorials

The Belgian Gratitude Memorial, Victoria Embankment

15/08/2023 donbrown 0

WHAT: The Anglo-Belgian Memorial WHERE: Victoria Embankment (map) BY WHOM: Victor Rousseau (and Reginald Blomfield) WHEN: 1920 The casus belli for the British Empire’s declaration […]

equestrian statue of ferdinand foch by george malissard

Equestrian Statue of Ferdinand Foch, Grosvenor Gardens

15/07/2023 donbrown 0

WHAT: Ferdinand Foch WHERE: Lower Grosvenor Gardens (map) BY WHOM: Georges Malissard WHEN: 1930 Within the (slightly grotty) public space of Lower Grosvenor Gardens, facing […]

The Billy Fiske Memorial, St Paul’s Cathedral

31/12/2022 donbrown 0

Among the 28,000 names listed in the ‘Roll of Honor’ in the American Memorial Chapel in St Paul’s will be that of William Meade Lindsley […]

The American Memorial Chapel, St Paul’s

22/06/2022 donbrown 0

If you’ve seen Herbert Mason’s photo ‘St Paul’s Survives’ – the dome of the cathedral still standing proud as the smoke of the Blitz rises […]

no pasaran the international brigades memorial in jubilee gardens london

No Pasaran! The Jubilee Gardens Memorial

22/06/2022 donbrown 0

The British and other foreign fighters travelling to Ukraine to resist Putin’s invasion are an echo of 85 years ago, some 35,000 non-Spaniards (2,500 from […]

The Tomb of the Unknown Warrior

08/08/2021 donbrown 0

If you should come into the Abbey through the West Door and into the nave, you will walk over the memorial to Sir Winston Churchill, but  everyone, whether […]

FREE VIRTUAL TOUR: London’s WW1 Memorials

05/04/2021 donbrown 0

A virtual tour from www.uktoursonline.com where I look at some of the capital’s most significant and most poignant war memorials from the First World War, […]

The Bomb Damage maps

20/03/2019 donbrown 0

During the war the London County Council surveyors chronicled the devastation caused by enemy bombing on the capital. Hand colouring street level OS maps, they plotted the buildings […]

Royal Artillery Memorial, Hyde Park Corner

12/03/2014 donbrown 0

Today I was going to go round Banqueting House, the last properly surviving bit of the old Palace of Whitehall, but when I got there […]