Erection date: 23/6/1993
{In the centre of the plinth:}
Charles de Gaulle, 1890 - 1970
{On a brass plaque low on the plinth:}
This statue was unveiled by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother on 23 June 1993.
Sculptor: Angela Conner
Architect: Bernard Wiehahn
See Musee de la Resistance for more information on this memorial (in French).
SW1, Carlton Gardens, 5
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
de Gaulle statue
Born Lille, France. Height 6 ft, 5 inches, nicknamed Le Grande Asperge. Presi...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
de Gaulle statue
In 1923 Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (descended from the Royal House of Scotland...
We thank Jamie Davis for finding this link to the British Pathe news film of the unveiling, where we note that the statue is veiled by a ...
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French resistance fighters in WW2. 470 SOE agents were sent on sabotage missions to occupied France where they fought with networks of French resistance fighters who played an important part in the...
Greater London Council George Edmund Street, 1824 - 1881, architect, lived here.
In 1940, after briefly being in Mayfair and Victoria, de Gaulle moved here with his French National Committee. On 18 June that year he ma...
The flowers behind the 'No Entry' sign are tributes to the murdered soldier Lee Rigby. We are sure that in time we will be back here to s...
