{On the west side of the plinth:}
Commander-in-Chief of the British Army, 1856 - 1895. born 1819, died 1904.
{On the east side of the plinth:}
Field Marshal, His Royal Highness, George, Duke of Cambridge, KG, GCB, etc.
We love that "etc." for his string of honours. Reddit have a magnificent photo "Workers at the AB Burton Foundry in Thames Ditton, Surrey pose in front of a statue of Prince George, Duke of Cambridge in 1907."
Site: George, Duke of Cambridge (1 memorial)
SW1, Whitehall
Dec 2011 our friends at Discovering London discovered a Horseguards Cavalry tradition that seems to be totally unknown except to those that enact it. To quote from Discovering London: "either the Blues and Royals or the Life Guards (whichever is on guard on Christmas Eve) put a hay net on the horse and bed it down and on New Year’s Eve it gets taken down by the opposite guard." What larks! Pictures from 2013. We'd forgotten all about this, until we happened to be passing by on Christmas day 2014, when we took our own hay-laden picture. Can a horsey person explain what the red ties on the tail are all about?
In November 2012 this statue was subjected to the indignity of a naked man sitting on the Duke's head. BBC report and picture.
2023: The 1906 building in the background of our photo (to the east of the statue) is the Old War Office. From CNN "Previously home to the operations of military leaders like Winston Churchill, the property has been reinvented as the UK’s first Raffles hotel, with luxurious rooms starting at £1,100 ... per night."
