Memorial details

Memorial type
Board / Plaque / Tablet
District
Kensington And Chelsea
Town
Knightsbridge
County
Greater London
Country
England
Commemoration
Northern Ireland Conflict; The Troubles (1969-1998)
Ceremony
  • Placed
    Date: c1985
    Attended by:
Lost
Not lost
WM Reference
53008

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Current location

Harrods
Hans Crescent
Knightsbridge
Kensington And Chelsea
Greater London
SW3 1AT
England

OS Grid Ref: TQ 27637 79469
Denomination: Undefined

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Description
Oval marble tablet with gold lettering, commemorating civilian victims of the Harrods Bomb incident. (The tablet hangs on a pillar above a separate memorial that commemorates the Police officers who died in the same incident, and was erected at an earlier date - see our reference 94235).
Inscription
IN FOND MEMORY/ OF/ PHILIP/ GEDDES/ KENNETH/ GERALD/ SALVESEN/ JASMINE/ COCHRAN/ PATRICK/ INNOCENT VICTIMS/ 17th DECEMBER 1983.
Inscription legible?
yes
Names on memorial
Cochran - Patrick, Jasmine
Geddes, Philip
Salvesen, Kenneth Gerald
See details for all 3 names
Commemorations
  • Northern Ireland Conflict; The Troubles (1969-1998)
    Total names on memorial: 3
    Served and returned: 0
    Died: 3
    Exact count: yes
    Information shown: forenames, surname, place of death, date of death
    Order of information: Undefined
Components
  • Tablet
    Measurements: Undefined
    Materials: Marble
Listing information
Condition
History
On 24/9/1985 a memorial to commemorate the three Metropolitan Police casualties who died in the Harrods bombing was unveiled. (That memorial was commissioned by The Police Memorial Trust - see our reference 94235). The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea later commissioned this tablet to commemorate the three civilians who died in the same incident (Philip Geddes, Kenneth Gerald Salvesen and Jasmine Cochran-Patrick), which was installed immediately above the memorial to the Police Officers.
Costs

Comments: The memorial was erected by the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea on an unestablished date (after September 1985).

Trust fund/Scholarship
No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A
Responsibility
Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference
  • Page 18 of the booklet "Chelsea Old Town Hall-Knightsbridge" describes the memorial that was unveiled on 24/9/1985 to commemorate the three Metropolitan Police Officers who died in the Harrods Bombing, and comments: "The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea later commissioned a similar tablet in remembrance of the three innocent civilians who died - Philip Gededes [sic], Kenneth Gerald Salvesen and Jasmine Cochran Patrick - which was placed immediately above the Memorial to the Police Officers."

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