The Royal Naval Division Memorial is a First World War memorial located on Horse Guards Parade in central London, and dedicated to members of the 63rd Division killed in that conflict. Sir Edwin Lutye
Royal Naval Division memorial, Horseguards Parade
Portrait of Brigadier-General Arthur Asquith, a leading member of the Royal Naval Division and chairman of the war memorial committee
The memorial with the Admiralty Extension in the background; the ivy to the left is growing on the Admiralty Citadel.
Detail of the plinth, showing the carved unit badges and the poem by Rupert Brooke
Arthur Asquith
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Brigadier General Arthur Melland Asquith, was a senior officer of the Royal Naval Division, a Royal Navy land detachment attached to the British Army during the First World War. His father, H. H. Asqu
Royal Naval Division War Memorial
…casualties. Shortly after the war, former members of the division established a committee, chaired by one of their leading officers, Brigadier-General Arthur Asquith, to raise funds for a memorial. Progress was initially slow. The committee planned to incorporate its memorial into a larger monument proposed by the…
Photograph of the wedding between Asquith and Manners.
Herbert Henry Asquith