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The statue of the Earl Kitchener is an outdoor bronze statue by John Tweed depicting Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, installed in 1926 and located on the south side of Horse Guards Parade in London, United Kingdom. [1] The sculpture stands on a Portland stone plinth. It became a Grade II listed building in 1970.
Field Marshal Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener (/ ˈ k ɪ tʃ ɪ n ər /; 24 June 1850 – 5 June 1916) was a British Army officer and colonial administrator. Kitchener came to prominence for his imperial campaigns, his involvement in the Second Boer War, [1] [2] and his central role in the early part of the First World War.
Statue of the Earl Kitchener, London; Stockbridge War Memorial; ... Memorial Park, Houston; Mojave Memorial Cross; National World War I Memorial (Washington, D.C.)
The Cádiz Memorial, also known as the "Prince Regent's Bomb", is an early 19th-century French mortar mounted on a brass monster, located in Horse Guards Parade in Westminster, London. [1] It was first "exposed to public view" on 12 August 1816 [ 2 ] and has been classified as a Grade II listed building since 1 December 1987. [ 3 ]
Memorial with sculpture Grade I: Unveiled 16 October 1926. The bronze figures represent five individual soldiers from the Grenadier, Coldstream, Scots, Irish and Welsh Guards; they were cast from captured German guns. After it sustained bomb damage in the Blitz, Ledward asked that some of the "honourable scars of war" be left on the memorial. [23]
While passing Birsay, Hampshire struck a mine laid by Germany U-Boat U-75 at 19:40 on 5 June, sinking her, with a loss of 737 on board, including Lord Kitchener. There were only 12 survivors. [ 2 ] After the First World War , the people of Orkney raised funds to construct a monument to honour Kitchener, and the other crew members onboard ...
Earl Kitchener, of Khartoum and of Broome in the County of Kent, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1914 for the famous officer Field Marshal Herbert Kitchener, 1st Viscount Kitchener of Khartoum .
The 24th Division War Memorial is a First World War memorial in Battersea Park, London. The unusual avant-garde design by Eric Kennington , his first public commission, was unveiled in 1924. It became a Grade II* listed building in 2005.