Memorial

Animal War Memorial Dispensary - WW1

Source: Copyright Duncan Rimmer

1/4

Current Location

Animal Clinic, 10 Cambridge Avenue, Kilburn, Brent, Greater London, NW6 5BA, England

TQ 25471 83488

Send us details and photographs of your local war memorials, to help enhance the information about the people, places and events they commemorate.

This record shows everything IWM currently knows about this memorial. We are continually updating our records.

To share information or photographs, contact us.

Type of Memorial: Hospital / Clinic
WMR Reference Number: 10995
Description: Three bay, two-storey house with shuttered windows on the upper front floor, built during the mid-nineteenth century. Converted to a Veterinary clinic with two tablets mounted at the entrance which give details of its unique purpose. Bronze relief above the entrance depicts animals on either side of the figure of Victory holding a wreath.
Inscription: LEFT: THIS BUILDING IS DEDICATED AS A MEMORIAL TO THE COUNTLESS/ THOUSANDS OF GOD'S HUMBLE CREATURES WHO SUFFERED AND/ PERISHED IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 - 1918 KNOWING NOTHING OF THE/ CAUSE. LOOKING FORWARD TO NO FINAL VICTORY. FILLED ONLY WITH/ LOVE FAITH AND LOYALTY THEY ENDURED MUCH AND DIED FOR US./ MAY WE ALL REMEMBER THEM WITH GRATITUDE AND IN THE FUTURE/ COMMEMORATE THEIR SUFFERING AND DEATH BY SHOWING MORE/ KINDNESS AND CONSIDERATION TO LIVING ANIMALS. RIGHT: 1914 - 1918 THIS TABLET RECORDS THE DEATH BY ENEMY ACTION/ DISEASE OR ACCIDENT OF 484,143 HORSES MULES CAMELS AND/ BULLOCKS AND OF MANY HUNDREDS OF DOGS CARRIER PIGEONS AND/ OTHER CREATURES ON THE VARIOUS FRONTS DURING THE GREAT WAR/ IT ALSO RECORDS THE FACT THAT IN FRANCE ALONE 725,216 SICK AND/ WOUNDED ANIMALS WERE TREATED IN VETERINARY HOSPITALS/ PROVIDED BY THE RSPCA.

Maker(s): Frederick Brook Hitch FRBS, Sculptor
MR JOHN OLIVER BROOK HITCH MC ARIBA, Architect
Maintenance History: 2008: Bronze relief fully restored Grade II Listed Building. LB BRENT REF 30/1939 APPLICATION FOR LISTED BUILDING CONSENT FOR CONVERSION OF FIRST FLOOR INTO TWO SELF-CONTAINED FLATS. ("WEMBLEY OBSERVER" 31 JY 2003)

Opened

10th Nov 1932

Countess of Warwick