To the honoured memory of Major Matthew Fontaine Maury Meiklejohn, V. C., Gordon Highlanders, killed on duty opposite this spot on June 28th anno domini, 1913.
He gave his life to save others.
SW7, South Carriage Drive, Hyde Park Barracks
Not related to the Meiklejohn story at all: the Model Villager has a great post about how the horse dung was (possibly still is) removed from the barracks' stables.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Meiklejohn
Gained his VC, and lost his right arm, as a captain in the 2nd Battalion, Gor...
Gandhi lived here in the 1890s, whilst studying law at University College.
The date is almost lost in the foliage, bottom right.
There were 16 of these open-book style ground plaques, marking the corners of blocks A - D, the 4 main large blocks of buildings in WW2 C...
Tony Hancock, 1924 - 1968, comedian, lived here, 1947 - 1948. The Dead Comics Society
Presumably Tottenham has, or had, some special connection with Palme or Sweden but we can't find it. When we published this Stephen Bras...