British field marshal, served in India and the Boer War. Born India to an Irishman who was serving there at the time. Considered himself Anglo-Irish even though he lived at Ascot. 1901 - 4 Commander-in-Chief of the Forces. Died in France at the start of WW1 - he caught a chill.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Earl Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts of Kandahar
Commemorated ati
Knightsbridge - 3 - Roberts
Stephen Brasher suggested that this is Field Marshal Lord Roberts and, having...
Roberts statue
Unveiled by the Duke of Connaught and we thank Jamie Davis for finding this l...
Other Subjects
61st Battery Royal Field Artillery
The brigade originally comprised numbers 193, 194 and 195 Howitzer Batteries, Royal Field Artillery (RFA) and the Brigade Ammunition Column. It took part in the fighting at Potgeiter's Drift and Sp...
1 memorial
W. M. Witherick
Student of Trinity College of Music, killed in WW1.
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
J. H. Coggs
Resident of Willesden who volunteered and died in the Anglo Boer War, 1899-1900.
War dead, Other war
1 memorial
Gunner Reginald Robbins
Reginald Robbins was born on 26 August 1918, a son of Thomas Robbins (1881-1945) and Annie Isabella Robbins née Everest (1886-1972). His birth was registered in the 4th quarter of 1918 in the Green...
War dead, WW2
1 memorial
Geoffrey Stewart
Killed in action in France, serving with the Coldstream Guards. Son of Sir Herbert Stewart. Andrew Behan found the photo and has researched this man: Captain Geoffrey Stewart was born on 28 Octobe...
1 memorial
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War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Whitfield Tabernacle and cemetery
Planetslade have a thorough and well-written history of the Whitefield chapel and its burial grounds. In brief: Funded by his patron the Countess of Huntingdon (see Lady Erskine for more about her)...
1 memorial
St Silas cross
N1, Penton Street, St Silas Church
Unusually this memorial was erected before the end of the war. There may be more but the only other one we know of is at St Botolphs.
2 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
Queen Victoria at Middle Temple Lane
EC4, Victoria Embankment, Middle Temple Lane entrance
This 1878-9 building by E. M. Barry was hidden behind scaffolding when we visited in November 2013 but by April 2014 it was showing its n...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Ellen and William Craft - blue plaque
W6, Cambridge Grove, 26
The Crafts have another plaque in this road but English Heritage are clear that this (number 26) is the house in which the Crafts settled...
2 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
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