Memorial

Kingston and District Boy Scouts

Kingston and District Boy Scouts Memorial

Source: Copyright Mike Dawson

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Current Location

Polyapes Scout Camp, Blundel Lane, Stoke D'Abernon, Elmbridge, Surrey, KT11 2SL, England

TQ 13082 59769

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Type of Memorial: Park / Sports field
WMR Reference Number: 23476
Description: Memorial campsite incorporating life sized statue of a boy scout on a cairn, a memorial to the seventy Scouts of Kingston and district lost in WW1. Further plaque added after the Second World War.
Inscription: FIRST WORLD WAR PLAQUE: (NAMES)/ TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ AND IN MEMORY OF/ THE BOY SCOUTS/ OF THE/ KINGSTON & DISTRICT/ ASSOCIATION/ WHO HAVE GONE HOME/ IN THE COURSE OF DUTY/ 1914-1918 SECOND WORLD WAR PLAQUE: 1939-1945/ (NAMES) CAIRN: THE RT. HON LORD ASHCOMBE C.B., T.D./ LORD LIEUTENANT OF SURREY COUNTY (PRES.)/ OPENED THIS GROUND AND UNVEILED THE MEMORIAL/ WHIT MONDAY 1929/ P.G.W. TYPKE F.I.C. F.C.S (PRES.)/ F.R. STEDMAN (D.C.)/ & CAPT. W.C. WHITE (HON. SEC.) TRUSTEES/ CARRIED OUT THE MEMORIAL SCHEME/ FOR THE KINGSTON & DISTRICT/ BOY SCOUTS ASSOCIATION/ VICE PRESIDENT A.B. BURTON/ CAST AND PRESENTED THE BRONZE FIGURE & PANELS

War: First World War (1914-1918)
Number Commemorated: 67
Died: 67
Information shown: surname, initials of forenames
Additional Information: Contemporary newspaper reports refer to seventy being lost in WW1

Maker(s): A B Brown, Founder / Foundry
Mr Ward Wells, local sculptor, Sculptor
Maintenance History: March 2009: A new commission of a replica scout figure in resin has been completed and will be errected later this year. July 2007: Figure of the scout stolen. c March 2007: Firgure restored and re-erected following damage caused by the attempted theft. 2005: Attempt to steal the figure left it badly damaged.