Phil Wood Posted 16 January , 2018 Share Posted 16 January , 2018 Came across this memorial to members of the Guards buried in Brompton cemetery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coldstreamer Posted 17 January , 2018 Share Posted 17 January , 2018 Hello, can't make out date on the memorial. Do you know what it is please? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squirrel Posted 17 January , 2018 Share Posted 17 January , 2018 As the inscription below the cross is "Tria juncta in uno" and the year appears to be 1854 or 1864. Crimean War memorial perhaps? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted 17 January , 2018 Share Posted 17 January , 2018 (edited) Almost certainly Crimean war. Cannon balls stacked in pyramids on the plinth. Tria Juncta in Uno refererred to the Grenadier Guards, Coldstream Guards and Scots Fusilier Guards and is referrred to in The Coldstream Guards in the Crimea by Sir John Foster George Ross of Bladensburg when the three regiments fought side by side at the Inkerman. it certainly predates the formation of the Irish Guards. Edited 17 January , 2018 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tullybrone Posted 17 January , 2018 Share Posted 17 January , 2018 (edited) 42 minutes ago, squirrel said: As the inscription below the cross is "Tria juncta in uno" and the year appears to be 1854 or 1864. Crimean War memorial perhaps? Hi, Dont think it’s a specific War Memorial rather a cross to commemorate soldiers of all 3 Guards Regiments who died whilst serving in London District in peacetime who were buried in Brompton Cemetery over a lengthy period of time. The inscription reads “To the memory of soldiers of the Brigade of Guards buried here since 1854 This Cross is erected by their comrades AD ????”*** Steve ***Dated confirmed as A D 1889 Edited 17 January , 2018 by tullybrone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted 17 January , 2018 Share Posted 17 January , 2018 (edited) 3 minutes ago, tullybrone said: Hi, Dont think it’s a specific War Memorial rather a cross to commemorate soldiers of all 3 Guards Regiments who died whilst serving in London District in peacetime who were hired in Brompton Cemetery over a lengthy period of time. The inscription reads To the memory of soldiers of the Brigade of Guards buried here since 1854 This Cross is erected by their comrades AD ???? Steve The nearby Brompton Hospital was opened in 1855. I suspect they are invalids from the Crimean War who died in the hospital. My speculation. Edited 17 January , 2018 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tullybrone Posted 17 January , 2018 Share Posted 17 January , 2018 (edited) Just found this IWM link http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/59136 Steve Edited 17 January , 2018 by tullybrone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tullybrone Posted 17 January , 2018 Share Posted 17 January , 2018 (edited) There are also WW1 and WW2 CWGC graves in the same cemetery - predominantly from the Brigade of Guards. Steve Edited 17 January , 2018 by tullybrone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted 17 January , 2018 Share Posted 17 January , 2018 Wiki Military graves[edit] From 1854 to 1939, Brompton Cemetery became the London District's Military Cemetery. The Royal Hospital Chelsea purchased a plot in the north west corner where they have a monument in the form of an obelisk; the Brigade of the Guards has its own section south of that. There are 289 Commonwealth service personnel of World War I and 79 of World War II, whose graves are registered and maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. A number of veterans are listed in the Notable Interments.[6] Although the majority of war graves are in the dedicated railed section to the west – also containing 19th century services graves – a number of servicemen's graves are scattered in other areas. Besides the British there are many notable Czekoslovak, Polish and Russian military burials. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Wood Posted 17 January , 2018 Author Share Posted 17 January , 2018 The stones arrayed around the cross bear the names of the Guards commemorated - from the 1850s on. I was there to photograph the grave of a Newbury lad who died in 1915 - in addition to his grave with the usual CWGC headstone his name is among those on the stone for the Reserve (4th) Bn Grenadier Guards (photo). Also a close up of the inscription - erected 1889. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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