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 ...
London Borough of Islington In memory of Jim Veal, 1931 - 2006, chairman of the Tenants & Residents Association which campaigned for ...
Folgate Street was known as White Lion Street until 1938. On the south side of the street number 10, two houses to the left (east) of 12...
Here lived and died Christina Georgina Rossetti, poetess. Born 1830 : died 1894.
Alfred Reynolds, Hungarian poet and philosopher lived here 1980 - 1993.
The Guardian has a detailed description of the procession from Charing Cross to Buckingham Palace. The war had been won; the Americans h...
