Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Hammersmith And Fulham
- Town
- Hammersmith
- County
- Greater London
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- American Civil War (1861-1865)
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 11904
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Current location
Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School
St Dunstans Rd
Hammersmith
Hammersmith And Fulham
Greater London
W6 8RP
England
OS Grid Ref: TQ 23759 77993
Denomination: Undefined
- Previous locations
- Charing Cross Hospital Medical School
Chandos Place
Covent Garden
City Of Westminster
Greater London
WC2N
England
OS Grid Ref: Undefined
Denomination: Undefined
- Charing Cross Hospital Medical School
- Description
- Oval shaped, light-coloured marble plaque on granite nowy-headed backboard. Oval plaque encircled with relief of rope.
- Inscription
- Backboard: LLEWELLYN/ 1864 Tablet: IN MEMORY OF/ DAVID HERBERT LLEWELLYN,/ FORMERLY A STUDENT OF THIS HOSPITAL/ AND AFTERWARDS/ SURGEON TO THE CONFEDERATE STATES WAR STEAMER/ "ALABAMA"./ AFTER HER ACTION WITH THE FEDERAL STEAMER "KEARSAGE" OFF CHERBOURG/ THOUGH ENTREATED BY THE WOUNDED TO JOIN THEM IN THEIR BOAT/ HE REFUSED TO PERIL THEIR SAFETY BY SO DOING AND WENT DOWN WITH THE/ SINKING VESSEL, ON THE 19TH OF JUNE 1864, IN THE 26TH YEAR OF HIS AGE./ THIS TABLET HAS BEEN ERECTED AND A SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDED/ IN HIS NAME BY/ HIS FELLOW STUDENTS, AND OTHERS IN ENGLAND AND INDIA/ TO COMMEMORATE HIS SELF-SACRIFICING/ COURAGE AND DEVOTION.
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Llewellyn, David Herbert
See details - Commemorations
- American Civil War (1861-1865)
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 0
Died: 1
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname,year died,regiment,place of death,forename,place of burial,manner of death,age of death,occupation
Order of information: Undefined
- American Civil War (1861-1865)
- Components
- Backboard
Measurements: height 3ft, width 4.5ft
Materials: Granite - Plaque
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Marble
- Backboard
- 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
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Responsibility
- Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School
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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