Erection date: 17/7/1930
{On the large stone plaque at the centre of this sombre memorial:}
Major-General Lord Cheylesmore, GBE, KCMG, KCMO, Grenadier Guards. Born 1848. Died 1925. Soldier, administrator, philanthropist and steadfast friend.
WC2, Victoria Embankment Gardens
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Lord Cheylesmore
Herbert Francis Eaton, 3rd Baron Cheylesmore. Born London. Chairman of the ...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Lord Cheylesmore
Born Arthur William Patrick Albert, the seventh child and third son of Queen ...
Architect. Born at 16 Onslow Square. Specialised in English country houses. C...
The inscription refers to Stead having worked near this site for 30 years. This was in Catherine Street in the offices of the Pall Mall G...
{There are 5 panels alternating with a balustrade. On the central panel, inside a wreath:} Pro Patria {And below that, on the front of ...
The monument is very weather-worn but the two panels containing the names are crisp so we think they have been recently re-carved. WW2 su...
The quotation comes from 'Ode Recited at the Harvard Commemoration, July 21, 1865' by James Russell Lowell. Its right-justification and t...
Prior to the restoration of the station these memorials stood elsewhere. The war memorial was originally erected in the booking hall. One...
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