Plaque | War dead | WW1

Thomas Colyer-Fergusson, VC

Photograph by: London Remembers

Photograph by: London Remembers

Inscription

{Below an image of a Victoria Cross medal:}
Captain Thomas Colyer-Fergusson, Northamptonshire Regiment, 31st July 1917.

Site: VC heroes - Victoria Embankment (12 memorials)

SW1, Victoria Embankment, Victoria Embankment Gardens

Reading right to left: De Pass; Rhodes-Moorhouse; Keysor; Campbell; Dunville; Colyer-Fergusson; Hewitt; Elliott-Cooper; Watson; Drummond; West; Gort. The last 4 were added in 2018, after we'd taken our main photograph.

We do wonder why these VC plaques are here, close to the Ministry of Defence, when others are near the homes of those honoured. A viscount and 3 hyphens? Does their class have anything to do with this elite location?

Comments are provided by Facebook, please ensure you are signed in here to see them

This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Thomas Colyer-Fergusson, VC

Subjects commemorated i

World War 1

We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came a...

Thomas Colyer-Fergusson, VC

Soldier. Born Thomas Riversdale Colyer-Fergusson a the site of the W1 plaque....

This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Thomas Colyer-Fergusson, VC

Created by i

Department for Communities and Local Government

A department of the government of the UK. From Victoria Cross commemorative p...

This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Thomas Colyer-Fergusson, VC

Also at this site i

Dennis Hewitt, VC

{Below an image of a Victoria Cross medal:} Second Lieutenant Dennis Hewitt, ...

Ferdinand West VC

{Beneath an image of a Victoria Cross medal:} Captain Ferdinand West, Royal A...

Frank de Pass VC

{Beneath an image of a Victoria Cross medal:} Lieutenant Frank de Pass, 34th ...

Geoffrey Drummond VC

{Beneath an image of a Victoria Cross medal:} Lieutenant Commander Geoffrey D...

John Campbell, VC

{Below an image of a Victoria Cross medal:} Lieutenant Colonel John Campbell,...

Show all 11

See other memorials in the area

Nearby Memorials

Gaius Classicianus

EC3, Trinity Place

A London Inheritance has a 1947, or thereabouts, photo of "London's earliest inscribed monument" as it was then, in two sections incorpor...

3 subjects commemorated

View on map

Sir Robert Mayer

W1, Mansfield Street, 2

English Heritage Sir Robert Mayer, 1879 - 1985, philanthropist and patron of music lived here, in flat no. 31.

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator

View on map

Eric Dixon

NW6, West Hampstead Underground station, West End Lane

We discovered the plaque through the Stationmaster app. This is rather sad. The plaque is at the far end of the platform where it is pro...

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator

View on map

E. V. Knox & Punch

NW3, Frognal, 110

Born 1881, editor of Punch, 1932 - 1949, E. V. Knox (Evoe), essayist and poet, lived here from 1945 until his death in 1971.

2 subjects commemorated

View on map

Police station foundation stone

EC1, Snow Hill, Police Station

This rather attractive building, designed as a Police Station by Sydney Perks, was erected in 1926. The foundation stone is to the right ...

5 creators

View on map