Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Tower
- District
- Camden
- Town
- Camden
- County
- Greater London
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918), Second World War (1939-1945)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 1919
Attended by: UNKNOWN
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 11074
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Current location
Southern section of Zoo. Three Island Pond
London Zoo
Camden
Camden
Greater London
NW1 4RY
England
OS Grid Ref: TQ 28255 83394
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Three-step hexagonal base surmounted by a tower with pyramidal roof and cross. The Tower is hexagonal in shape and has carved piping at corners. Each face has an upper conical window. Modeled on French Lantern des Mortes. The dedicatory inscription and names are incised on plaques mounted fixed to stones which are set within upper step of the base.
- Inscription
- Plaque 1: THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON/ IN MEMORY OF EMPLOYEES WHO WERE KILLED ON/ ACTIVE SERVICE IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1919/ (Names) Plaque 2: THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON/ IN MEMORY OF EMPLOYEES KILLED/ BY ENEMY ACTION DURING THE WAR/ 1939-1945/ REGENTS PARK/ (Names)
- Inscription legible?
- no
- Names on memorial
- Adams, Percy Murray
Bodman, William
Dare, Charles W.
Davies, Henry Peris
Day, Alfred (andrew) Lomas
Dermott, Albert Arthur
Dexter, William
Jones, Robert
Leney, William Walter Thomas
Munro, Henry D
See details for all 17 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 12
Served and returned: 0
Died: 12
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname,year died,regiment,forename,occupation
Order of information: year died - Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 5
Served and returned: 0
Died: 5
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname,year died,regiment,place of death,forename,manner of death,occupation
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Tower
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone - Portland - Plaque
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Brass
- Tower
- Listing information
- London Zoo War Memorial
- Grade II
- This memorial is protected, and listed on the National Heritage List for England maintained by Historic England. View list entry
- More about listing and the protection of historic places can be found on the Historic England website
- Condition
- Zoological Society of London Employees
- WMO ID: 168967
- Condition: Good [last updated on 23-10-2019]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- History
- 2009: The inscription on the WWI plaque is worn and hard to read.
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Responsibility
- The Zoological Society of London
- Reference
- Cholerton, Anthony. The London Zoo War Memorial. 2018. (Available in ZSL Library, London NW1 4RY.)
- Other website worldwarzoogardener1939.wordpress.com/2010/11/09/%e2%80%9clost-in-the-garden-of-the-sons-of-time%e2%80%9d-remembering-the-fallen-zoo-staff-from-wartime-zoos-onremembrance-sunday-and-armistice-day-2010-in-the-wartime-zoo-gardens/
- Our Blog ukniwm.wordpress.com/2013/05/29/lost-gardeners/
- Percy Simmonds Photograph Collection
- Bird, L.A. The War Memorial at London Zoo. 1995. (Available in ZSL Library, London NW1 4RY.)
This record comprises all information held by IWM’s War Memorials Register for this memorial. Where we hold a names list for the memorial, this information will be displayed on the memorial record. Please check back as we are adding more names to the database.
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