Monument

Sir Henry Wilson at Liverpool Street Station

Erection date: 22/7/1922

Inscription

{In the bronze below the portrait:}
B. 1864 D. 1922

{Inscribed, bottom left:}
C. Hartwell, ARA

{Incised in the marble below the bronze portrait:}
To the memory of Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson Bart. GCB, DSO, MP, whose death occurred on Thursday 22nd June 1922, within two hours of his unveiling the adjoining memorial.

The memorial that Wilson had just unveiled before his death is the main war memorial, not the one to Fryatt.

Site: WW1, Fryatt and Wilson (3 memorials)

EC2, Liverpool Street Station

Prior to the restoration of the station these memorials stood elsewhere. The war memorial was originally erected in the booking hall. One can see that the arrangement has been rather cobbled together - the lift would not have been part of any original design. The stone frieze, "Great Eastern Railway", was salvaged from Harwich House.

2024: Londonist comments on the lift that is integrated into this memorial.

2025: In his 'Memoirs of an Infantry Officer' Siegfried Sassoon describes (on page 208) arriving to catch a train to Cambridge in the immediate aftermath of the 13 June 1917 bomb attack which killed 13 people.

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This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Sir Henry Wilson at Liverpool Street Station

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Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson

Prominent General in WW1 who visited Northern Ireland in March 1922 and spoke...

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This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Sir Henry Wilson at Liverpool Street Station

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Charles Leonard Hartwell, RA, FRBS, RBC.

He was a Member of the Royal Academy. The picture is a self-portrait. Much in...

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This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Sir Henry Wilson at Liverpool Street Station

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Fryatt at Liverpool Street Station

Fryatt at Liverpool Street Station

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WW1 at Liverpool Street Station

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