Monument

Tsunami memorial

Erection date: 6/7/2011

Inscription

{On the underside of the cut:}
In memory of all those who died in the Indian Ocean tsunami, 26 December 2004.

{On the ground beneath the cut:}
The names of the 155 British victims.

120-tonne block of granite, 4.1 metre cube with a corner removed. According to Handy Shipping Guide this was the "biggest transportation of a single piece of stone in the UK or France since the building of Stonehenge and the tale of how the giant piece came to arrive at the Natural History Museums gardens is worth telling."

The prime organiser of this memorial, Michael Holland, lost his motherwife and daughter in the disaster. 

Site: Tsunami memorial (1 memorial)

SW7, Cromwell Road, Natural History Museum, Darwin Centre garden

The tsunami, this memorial and its unveiling are well covered at the Natural History Museum. The BBC provides some information about, and photographs of many of the dead. Not surprisingly with so many names, there are some discrepancies between the BBC list and that on the memorial. Where possible these are addressed on the individual subject pages. But also there are 12 names on the memorial that the BBC does not have, and 5 that the BBC has but do not appear on the memorial. The BBC list is dated December 2005 so possibly the memorial list, being later, is more accurate.

2024: Ian Visits reported that the gardens around the Museum have been remade into a wildlife garden.  We expect this has not changed the Tsunami memorial but can't be sure. Within a few days of posting that Ruth Siddall contacted us: "I can confirm that the Indian Ocean Tsunami Memorial has not been affected by the redesign of the gardens at the NHM. It is located in the same place, but it is now behind the new Nature Activity Centre." Thanks Ruth.

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This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
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Tsunami in the Indian Ocean

More than 230,000 people died, 153 being British.

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June T. Abeyratne

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Lincoln David Abraham

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Robert Adamson

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King Charles III

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