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‘Gassed’ by John Singer Sargent at the IWM Blavatnik Gallery

09/02/2025 donbrown 0

John Singer Sargent was an American expat artist whose luminous portraits of late Victorian and Edwardian society – the aristocrats and the rich – made […]

30 Years of Warfare: from the Nery Gun to the V2

10/07/2024 donbrown 0

Go down into the central atrium of the Imperial War Museum in Lambeth, and one of the first things you see is the ‘Nery Gun’. […]

machine gun corps memorial by francis derwent wood

“Saul has slain his thousands” | The Machine Gun Corps Memorial

08/06/2024 donbrown 0

Saul has slain his thousands, but David his tens of thousands The inscription above, which is on the memorial to the Machine Gun Corps at […]

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 […]

Statues: the Edith Cavell Memorial

16/08/2021 donbrown 2

WHAT: Edith Cavell Memorial: WHERE: St Martin’s Place (map) BY WHOM: Sir George Frampton WHEN: 1920

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, […]

Reginald Warneford – first destroyer of a Zeppelin

18/01/2014 donbrown 0

In Brompton Cemetery stands a wonderful monument to Reginald Warneford, the first man to destroy a Zeppelin in combat, over Belgium on 7 June 1915. He didn’t shoot it down, […]

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‘Gassed’ by John Singer Sargent at the IWM Blavatnik Gallery

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30 Years of Warfare: from the Nery Gun to the V2

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“Saul has slain his thousands” | The Machine Gun Corps Memorial

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The Belgian Gratitude Memorial, Victoria Embankment

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Equestrian Statue of Ferdinand Foch, Grosvenor Gardens

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Statues: the Edith Cavell Memorial

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The Tomb of the Unknown Warrior

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Reginald Warneford – first destroyer of a Zeppelin

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