Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Mosaic or mural
- District
- City Of Westminster
- Town
- Westminster
- County
- Greater London
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- Nine Years' War (1688-1697), 18th Century Wars (1700-1799)
- Maker
- MR J R CLAYTON (Designer)
George Tinworth (Sculptor)
MESSRS BURKE AND SALVATI (Builder) - Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: C 1879
Attended by: UNKNOWN
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Lost
- WM Reference
- 48623
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- Previous locations
- North wall arcades
The Guards Chapel (Old)
Birdcage Walk
Westminster
City Of Westminster
Greater London
SW1H 9AA
England
OS Grid Ref: TQ 29545 79630
Denomination: Undefined
- North wall arcades
- Description
- Mosaic depicting a figure with inscription at the base. Lunette relief of a bible story above the mosaic.Mosiac depicts Elisha and relief shows the leprosy of Naaman
- Inscription
- IN MEMORY OF LIEUT.-GENERAL THE HON. THOMAS TOLLEMACHE, AND ALSO ENSIGN LYONEL ROBERT TOLLEMACHE. LIEUT.-GENERAL TOLLEMACHE, THE SON OF SIR LYONEL TOLLEMACHE AND ELIZABETH, COUNTESS OF DYSART IN HER OWN RIGHT, HAVING SERVED WITH DISTINCTION FOR SEVERAL YEARS, ON 1ST MAY, 1689, WAS APPOINTED COLONEL OF THE COLDSTREAM GUARDS. AT THE BATTLE OF LANDEN, 19TH JULY, 1693, HE COMMANDED THE INFANTRY; AND IN 1694, WAS COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE EXPEDITION AGAINST BREST, DEFENDED BY THE FRENCH UNDER MARSHAL VAUBAN, AND BEING MORTALLY WOUNDED 8TH JUNE, DIED AT PLYMOUTH FOUR DAYS AFTER. ENSIGN TOLLEMACHE JOINED THE 1ST GUARDS 28TH JUNE, 1791, AND WAS KILLED AT THE SEIGE OF VALENCIENNES, 16TH OCTOBER, 1793, IN THE NINETEENTH YEAR OF HIS AGE. PLACED BY WILLIAM JOHN MANNERS TOLLEMACHE, 9TH EARL OF DYSART, AND BY JOHN TOLLEMACHE, 1ST LORD TOLLEMACHE OF HELMINGHAM.
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Tollemache, Lyonel Robert
Tollemache, Thomas (the Hon)
See details for all 2 names - Commemorations
- Nine Years' War (1688-1697)
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 0
Died: 1
Exact count: yes
Information shown: rank, surname, date of death, regiment, place of death, forename, manner of death, relationships, occupation
Order of information: Undefined - 18th Century Wars (1700-1799)
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 1
Died: 1
Exact count: yes
Information shown: rank, surname, date of death, regiment, place of death, forenames, manner of death, age of death, relationships
Order of information: Undefined
- Nine Years' War (1688-1697)
- Components
- Mosaic
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Unknown
- Mosaic
- Condition
- History
- 1944: MEMORIAL WAS LOST WHEN THE CHAPEL WAS DESTROYED BY A FLYING BOMB
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Sponsorship
- Private
- Reference
- THE GUARDS' CHAPEL by WILKINSON, N 93; 158 Source: Image Library IWM PRINTED BOOKS Published:THE CHISWICK PRESS LTD 1938 NEW SOUTHGATE, LONDON, N11
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