Erection date: 1919
{On the panel, facing the Palace:}
Erected by "The Silver Thimble Fund", 1919.
{On the panel, facing the pond:}
In memory of our soldiers who fought in the Great War, 1914 - 1918.
W2, Broad Walk, Kensington Gardens
The person crouching in our photo is an artist, painting Kensington Palace. See Thimble shelters - north for more information.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Thimble shelters - south
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came a...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Thimble shelters - south
Miss {Elizabeth} H. E. Hope-Clarke of Wimbledon, inspired by her own damaged ...
James Clerk Maxwell (1831 - 1879) physicist, lived here. LCC
Mervyn Mansell, MBE. DSC. 1918-2009, player and Colts coaching manager, a lifelong contribution
Greater London Council Admiral of the Fleet, Lord Fisher, 1841 - 1920, lived here as First Sea Lord, 1904 - 1910.
Hill House (or The Hill), was occupied after his father's death by John Gurney Hoare. In 1896 his son, Sir Samuel Hoare, sold it to Georg...
The poem is part of ‘Riddles’, R.F.C. by John Drinkwater, 1918.
