Kew Guild Members and Royal Botanic Staff

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Reference WMO/111219

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Temple of Arethusa

Kew Gardens

Kew Road

Kew

TW8 8QE

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Non freestanding
Location: Internal
Setting: Inside a building - public/private
Description: Board/Plaque/ Tablet
Materials:
  • Metal Metal (any)
Lettering: Inscribed on a plaque
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: Rectangular headed plaque with a King's Crown top centre and a floral border. The First World War names are in raised lettering in three columns above the Second World War names which are also in raised lettering in three columns. The plaque is mounted on the back wall of the garden's classical Temple of Arethusa, which was designed by Sir William Chambers for Princess Augusta and built in 1758. Arethusa was a mythical Greek nymph who was turned into a spring of water.
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To the glory of God and in honoured memory of the members of the Kew Guild and staff of the Royal Botanic Gdns Kew who gave their lives in the Great War 1914-1919. Floreat Kew. 1939-1945.

First World War:L/Cpl Charles Henry Anderson London Scottish, Pte Arthur Edwin Baggs Canadian Seaforth Highlanders, Pte Charles Frederick Ball Royal Dublin Fusiliers, 2nd Lt John Charles Beswick Royal Lancaster Regiment, Pte Charles Hubert Brown RGA, Pte John Mackenzie Campbell Canadian Beavers Battalion, Gnr James William Clark RMA, Sgt Sidney George Cobbold Rifle Brigade, L/Cpl Harry Sidney Cockroft Military Foot Police, Pte Ernest Richard Collins Middlesex Regt, Pte Sidney George Comer Tank Corps USA, Sergt John Dear East Surrey Regt, Capt Charles Leopold Digoy French Infantry, Rflmn John Divers Queen Victoria Rifles, Sergt George Douglas Tank Corps, L/Cpl Arnold Edmund Duley MM Somerset Light Infantry, Pte Gordon Farries Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders, Pte James Garnett Wiltshire Regt, Sergt John Giles Canadian Victoria Fusiliers, Pte Joseph Hayhurst Border Regt, Sergt Frederick Honey East Surrey Regt, Seaman John Knowles Jackson Royal Navy, Pte William Lorimer Joyce South Wales Borderers, Pte Henry James Longhurst Kings Royal Rifles, Pioneer Percy Thomas Martin Royal Engineers, Rflmn Arthur John Meads Queens Westminsters, Pte Walter Henry Morland Royal Scots, Gnr Frederick T Purssell RFA, 2nd Lt Munro Briggs Scott Royal Scots, Gnr Robert Service Canadian Trench Mortar Brigade, Sgt Henry James Smith East Surrey Regt, Sgt Herbert W L Southgate Norfolk Regt, Maj John Leonard Veitch MC Devon Regt, L/Cpl Frank Windebank East Surrey Regt, Signr John Nicholls Winn Civil Service Rifles, Cpl Herbert Martin Woolley Essex Regt, Pte Bert Wright Warwickshire Regt Second World War 1939-1945: Fl/Sgt Thomas Watkins Rayment Royal Air Force, Trooper Eric Egerton Smith 11th Hussars-Royal Armoured Corps, Fl/Sgt Reginald Frederick Miles Royal Air Force, Fl/Sgt William Sidney Hugh Menzies Royal Air Force, Cpl Cecil George Last MM 6th South African Armoured Division, Lieut John Gordon Mayne Highland Light Infantry (Canada), Fl/Sgt Frederick George Selby Royal Air Force, Trooper John Wilfred Sutch Royal Armoured Corps, Cpl Percy Ernest Thyer South African Armoured Division, Sgt Gordon Henry Spare Singapore Defence Volunteers, S/Lieut Georges Henri Larson Corps France d’Afrique, Capt Edward Herbert Robson Royal Berkshire Regiment, Sgt John Charles Nauen Straits Settlements Volunteer Force, Despatch Rider Allan Beard Middlesex Regiment

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