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 expression "our glorious dead" suggests that this memorial was raised to the dead in the armed forces only and not to any civilian dead.
This memorial is close to the crash site. There is another in New Addington.
The quotation from Hugo is very well-chosen. He was exiled from France for 15 years and returned the day after the fall of Napoleon III's...
This is a classy plaque, very of its time. From Fanny Cornforth we learn that the text "death has...." is written by Henry Wilson and is...
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