30 Years of Warfare: from the Nery Gun to the V2
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’. […]
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“Saul has slain his thousands” | The Machine Gun Corps Memorial
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
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, Grosvenor Gardens
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
WHAT: Edith Cavell Memorial: WHERE: St Martin’s Place (map) BY WHOM: Sir George Frampton WHEN: 1920
The Tomb of the Unknown Warrior
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
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
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, […]