Erection date: 2002
{On the east side of the stone on which the girl sits:}
Two pupils c.1814 from the Royal Military Asylum which occupied this site from 1803 - 1909 when the Duke of York's Royal Military School relocated to Dover.
Allister Bowtell, ARBS,Sculp. 2002
{On the bollard over which the boy jumps, in large embossed letters, twice:}
Hans Town 1819
The sculpture is Bowtell’s 'My Children' (or 'Two Pupils'). The plinth is by Kindersley.
The boy, wearing the school’s traditional uniform of jacket and breaches, is leap-frogging over a bollard which is cast from an original 1819 Hans Town bollard. Hans Town was developed by Henry Holland about 1780 - 1800 and covered the area either side of Sloane Street between Knightsbridge and Cadogan Place.
Site: Royal Military Asylum (1 memorial)
SW3, King's Road, Duke of York Square
