Soldier and politician. Born Clackmannanshire, Scotland. Lieutenant-general in the army. Served in the Napoleonic Wars. Died following a hit at a battle, a victory, near Alexandria.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Sir Ralph Abercromby
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Cleopatra's needle
Pink granite, 68.5 feet high, 186 tons. Vulliamy created, and Youngs cast, th...
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13th (County of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (Kensington)
London unit which served in WW1. Their Wikipedia page show how the Battalion came into being on 1 April 1908 and how it was subsequently transformed. It is shown as the 13th Battalion (Kensingtons...
Caesar's Camp
Iron-age fort, established circa 250 BC. Although Roman artefacts have been found at the site, any connection with Caesar (Julius or otherwise) is purely fanciful. Nothing tangible of the fort rema...
Brigadier Andrew Henry Parker Bowles, OBE
Born into an elite horsey family, close to the royals. 1960 commissioned into the Royal Horse Guards and stayed in the mounted services for much of his military career, based at Hyde Park Barracks....
C. E. Steer
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
Private Harry Reginald Toft
Harry Reginald Toft was born in 1892 in Redditch, Worcestershire, the fifth of the six children of the Reverend John Toft (b.1851) and Mary Ann Toft née Farnsworth (1853-1907). His birth was regist...
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Disraeli statue
SW1, Parliament Square
Unveiled exactly two years after his death, this statue was central to the foundation of the Primrose League, an organisation formed to p...
Imperial Hotel - statue 20
WC1, Russell Square
On this site there used to be a sister hotel to Hotel Russell, also designed by Charles Fitzroy Doll and erected in 1898. It was demolish...
St Katharine by the Tower
E1, St Katharine's Lock, Dockmaster's house
Very similar iron plaques can be found on mooring bollards around the docks. The design looks early 19th century to us so perhaps this p...
Beresford Pite
Architect. Born, Arthur Beresford Pite, 9 South Terrace, Grosvenor Park, Walworth. London buildings: 30 Euston Square the original building with the Melton Street frontage - HQ of an assurance co...
Bermondsey Library - foundation stone
SE16, Spa Road, Old Bermondsey Library / Kagyu Samye Dzong Buddhist centre
The busts are on the keystones of the library first floor window arches, numbered left to right. Ornamental Passions has posted about th...