The Westminster Scholars War Memorial (Crimea and Indian Mutiny Memorial)

The Westminster Scholars War Memorial, also known as the Crimea and Indian Mutiny Memorial is a Gothic column of Aberdeen granit, nearly 21m high, erected in 1861, as a memorial to Lord Raglan, and other “old Westminster scholars” who fell in the Crimean (1854-1856) and Indian (1857-1858) wars. It is designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott ( English Gothic revival architect 1811-1878) and installed near Westminster Abbey.

Four lions flank the base around the following inscriptions:

North side:

TO THE MEMORY OF THOSE
EDUCATED AT WESTMINSTER SCHOOL
WHO DIED IN THE RUSSIAN AND INDIAN WARS
A.D.1854 -1859
ON THE FIELD OF BATTLE
OR FROM WOUNDS OR SICKNESS
SOME IN EARLY YOUTH
SOME FULL OF YEARS AND HONOURS
BUT WHO ALL ALIKE
GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR COUNTRY
THIS COLUMN WAS ERECTED
BY THEIR OLD SCHOOLFELLOWS
IN TOKEN OF SORROW FOR THEIR LOSS
OF PRIDE IN THEIR VALOUR
AND IN FULL ASSURANCE
THAT THE REMEMBRANCE OF THEIR HEROISM
IN LIFE AND DEATH
WILL INSPIRE THEIR SUCCESSORS
AT WESTMINSTER
WITH THE SAME COURAGE
AND SELF- DEVOTION.

South side:

FIELD MARSHAL

LORD RAGLAN G.C.B.
COMMANDER IN CHIEF 1854-1855

LIEUTENANT GENERAL
FREDERICK MARKHAM, C.B.
2ND DIVISION

RUSSIAN WAR 1854 -1856

West side:

CAPTAIN AUGUSTUS FREDERICK KYNASTON
R.N., C.B.
MAJOR AUGUSTUS SALTREN WILLETT
17TH LANCERS
CAPTAIN FREDERICK HENRY DYMOCK
95TH REGIMENT
LIEUTENANT REGINALD HUGH SOMERVILLE
23RD FUSILIERS
LIEUTENANT WILLIAM WALKER JORDAN
34TH REGIMENT
LIEUTENANT RICHARD BOROUGH
RIFLE BRIGADE
MIDSHIPMAN CHARLES MADAN
HMS SANSPAREIL
FREDERICK HENTY
COMMISSARIAT DEPARTMENT

RUSSIAN WAR 1854 - 1856

East side:

GENERAL SIR WILLIAM BARNARD, G.C.B.
COMMANDER IN CHIEF 1857
MAJOR JOHN WATERFIELD, 38TH B.N.I (BENGAL NATIVE INFANTRY)
MAJOR WALTER ROBERT PROUT, 56TH B.N.I (BENGAL NATIVE INFANTRY)
CAPTAIN WILSON HENRY JONES, H.M 13TH L. INF. (LIGHT INFANTRY)
CAPTAIN LOUIS HENRY BEDFORD, H.M. 37TH REGI (REGIMENT)
CAPTAIN WILLIAM THORNTON PHILLIMORE, 10TH B.NI (BENGAL NATIVE INFANTRY)
LIEUTENANT HENRY BINGHAM, H.M. 90TH REG (REGIMENT)
LIEUTENANT LOVICK EMILIUS COOPER, H.M.R BRIGADE
CORNET WILLIAM GEORGE HAWTREY BANKES, H.M. 7TH HUSSARS, V.C.

INDIAN WAR 1857-1858

At the top of the memorial there are four sitting figures, under Gothic canopies, representing the successive founders and benefactors of the School and Abbey; Edward the Confessor, Henry III., Queen Elizabeth, and Queen Victoria and the whole is surmounted by a figure of St. George slaying the Dragon carved by John Richard Clayton (1827-1913). The four sitting persons is the work of J. Birnie Philip (1824-1875).

Address: The Sanctuary, Westminster, London SW1P 3JS