Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Composite
- District
- City Of Westminster
- Town
- Mayfair
- County
- Greater London
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- Animal Memorials, First World War (1914-1918), Second World War (1939-1945)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 24 November 2004
Attended by: HRH The Princes Royal (Princess Anne)
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 53495
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Current location
Opposite the junction of Park Lane and Upper Brook Street
Brook Gate
Park Lane
Mayfair
City Of Westminster
Greater London
W1K 7AJ
England
OS Grid Ref: TQ 27956 80732
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- LARGE CURVED PORTLAND STONE WALL WITH ANIMALS ENGRAVED IN PROFILE, AND SURROUNDED BY BRONZE HORSE, MULES AND DOG ON LARGER PORTION OF BROKEN WALL ARE ELEPHANT, CAMELS, GOATS, PIGEONS, GLOW-WORMS, AND OTHER ANIMALS CARVED IN BAS-RELIEF. TWO BRONZE MULES BEARING EQUIPMENT STAND AT FRONT OF MEMORIAL AND BRONZE HORSE AND DOG STAND BEHIND IT. ON BACK OF WALL IS ENGRAVED OUTLINE OF ANIMALS, REPRESENTING GHOSTLY SILHOUETTE OF THOSE KILLED. A LIST OF MAJOR DONORS IS ON THE REVERSE WALL.
- Inscription
- ANIMALS IN WAR/ THIS MONUMENT IS DEDICATED TO ALL THE ANIMALS THAT SERVED AND DIED ALONGSIDE/ BRITISH AND ALLIED FORCES IN WARS AND CAMPAIGNS OF THE 20TH CENTURY/ THEY HAD NO CHOICE
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Commemorations
- Animal Memorials
Total names on memorial: 0
Served and returned: 0
Died: 0
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Undefined
Order of information: Undefined - First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 0
Served and returned: 0
Died: 0
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Undefined
Order of information: Undefined - Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 0
Served and returned: 0
Died: 0
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Undefined
Order of information: Undefined
- Animal Memorials
- Components
- Wall
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone - Portland - Figures
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Bronze
- Wall
- Listing information
- This memorial is not currently listed. Find out how to nominate this memorial for inclusion on the National Heritage List for England
- More about listing and the protection of historic places can be found on the Historic England website
- Condition
- Animals in War
- WMO ID: 72030
- Condition: Fair [last updated on 05-05-2018]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- History
- 2013, 27 May: defaced with the word 'Islam' in red spray paint.
- Costs
Site: Allocated by Westminster CC
Memorial: £1,800,000- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Responsibility
- Westminster County Council
- Reference
- Animals in War Memorial Fund: www.animalsinwar.org.uk/
- Daily Telegraph 28 May 2013 Report and photo of vandalism.
- Sunday Express 28 May 2000
- The Gunner March 2002, p17
- Sunday Times 14 November 2004
- The Independent 17 October 2000; 25 November 2004; 23 December 2004
- Daily Telegraph 01 November 2004; 25 November 2004
- The Guardian 25 November 2004
- Metro 25 November 2004; 28 May 2013
- The Daily Mail 25 November 2004
- War Memorials Trust WM376 www.warmemorials.org/search-grants/?gID=459
- Evening Standard 26 November 2004
- Imperial War Museum, Department of Collections Access and Library 09/45
- London Remembers: www.londonremembers.com/memorials/animals-in-war
- The Guardian 12 July 2010
- Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animals_in_War_Memorial
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