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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Hospital / Clinic
- District
- Brent
- Town
- Kilburn
- County
- Greater London
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918), Animal Memorials
- Maker
- Frederick Brook Hitch FRBS (Sculptor)
MR JOHN OLIVER BROOK HITCH MC ARIBA (Architect) - Ceremony
- Opened
Date: 10th Nov 1932
Attended by: Countess of Warwick
- Opened
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 10995
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Current location
Animal Clinic
10 Cambridge Avenue
Kilburn
Brent
Greater London
NW6 5BA
England
OS Grid Ref: TQ 25471 83488
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Three bay, two-storey house with shuttered windows on the upper front floor, built during the mid-nineteenth century. Converted to a Veterinary clinic with two tablets mounted at the entrance which give details of its unique purpose. Bronze relief above the entrance depicts animals on either side of the figure of Victory holding a wreath.
- Inscription
- LEFT: THIS BUILDING IS DEDICATED AS A MEMORIAL TO THE COUNTLESS/ THOUSANDS OF GOD'S HUMBLE CREATURES WHO SUFFERED AND/ PERISHED IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 - 1918 KNOWING NOTHING OF THE/ CAUSE. LOOKING FORWARD TO NO FINAL VICTORY. FILLED ONLY WITH/ LOVE FAITH AND LOYALTY THEY ENDURED MUCH AND DIED FOR US./ MAY WE ALL REMEMBER THEM WITH GRATITUDE AND IN THE FUTURE/ COMMEMORATE THEIR SUFFERING AND DEATH BY SHOWING MORE/ KINDNESS AND CONSIDERATION TO LIVING ANIMALS. RIGHT: 1914 - 1918 THIS TABLET RECORDS THE DEATH BY ENEMY ACTION/ DISEASE OR ACCIDENT OF 484,143 HORSES MULES CAMELS AND/ BULLOCKS AND OF MANY HUNDREDS OF DOGS CARRIER PIGEONS AND/ OTHER CREATURES ON THE VARIOUS FRONTS DURING THE GREAT WAR/ IT ALSO RECORDS THE FACT THAT IN FRANCE ALONE 725,216 SICK AND/ WOUNDED ANIMALS WERE TREATED IN VETERINARY HOSPITALS/ PROVIDED BY THE RSPCA.
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Commemorations
- 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 - 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)
- Components
- Tablet
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone - Portland - Relief
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Bronze
- Tablet
- 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
- The Animals War Memorial Dispensary
- WMO ID: 167219
- Condition: Good [last updated on 30-04-2018]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- History
- 2008: Bronze relief fully restored Grade II Listed Building. LB BRENT REF 30/1939 APPLICATION FOR LISTED BUILDING CONSENT FOR CONVERSION OF FIRST FLOOR INTO TWO SELF-CONTAINED FLATS. ("WEMBLEY OBSERVER" 31 JY 2003)
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Responsibility
- RSPCA
- Reference
- The Times 14 Dec. 1931 p.18 Prizes for designs were awarded the previous week. 31 designs had been submitted to the Royal Society of British Sculptors for adjudication. The first prize was aawrded to F Brook Hitch, the second to Ferdinand Blundstone FRBS, and the third to Thomas J Clapperton ARBS
- Our Blog ukniwm.wordpress.com/2012/01/24/the-animals-war-memorial-dispensary/
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