Images Bushey War Memorial
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| Chapel of All Souls (Kitchener Memorial Chapel) | St Paul's Cathedral City of London | Reid Dick worked on the Kitchener Memorial in what is now known as The Chapel of All Souls in St Paul's Cathedral. After Kitchener's death when the "Hampshire" was sunk in June 1916, a "Kitchener Memorial Committee" was formed to choose and organise a fitting tribute to his life and achievements and the Kitchener Memorial Chapel was selected. The memorial includes a Pieta and the figures of the Warrior Saints St Michael and St George and a recumbent Lord Kitchener in white marble, all the work of Reid Dick. At Kitchener's head is a tablet on the wall which reads
"GLORY TO GOD/ IN THE HIGHEST/ THIS CHAPEL IS SET/ APART IN MEMORY OF F.M. EARL KITCHENER/ HIS MAJESTY,S SECRETARY/ OF STATE FOR WAR AND/ ALL OTHERS WHO FELL 1914-1918" inscription and next to the effigy itself is another inscription"MDCCCL. THE WHOLE WORLD IS THE TOMB OF/ A GREAT MAN AND/ HIS NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE MCMXVI" inscription Image shown right courtesy Tony Worrall and that in gallery below courtesy Alexander Gordon. Reid Dick also worked on the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Nursing Service Memorial Tablet in the Kitchener Memorial Chapel |
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| Horlicks Limited War Memorial | Slough Berkshire | This memorial is located in the grounds of the Horlick's factory in Stoke Poges Lane, Slough. Reid Dick's sculpture for this memorial is a bronze figure of a woman in an attitude of grief. The memorial is dedicated to the 7 employees of Horlicks who gave their lives in the First World War. | |
| The Royal Air Force Memorial | Westminster Greater London | This memorial is located on the Victoria Embankment and comprises a stone column surmounted by a large globe on which Reid Dick has sculpted a gilt eagle with wings upstretched and facing towards the Thames. The memorial's inscription reads
"IN MEMORY OF ALL RANKS OF THE ROYAL NAVAL AIR SERVICE, ROYAL FLYING CORPS, ROYAL AIR FORCE AND THOSE AIR FORCES FROM EVERY PART OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE, WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN WINNING VICTORY FOR THEIR KING AND COUNTRY 1914-18. I BARE YOU ON EAGLES WINGS AND BROUGHT YOU UNTO MYSELF" inscription This memorial was unveiled in 1923 by the Prince of Wales. His speech included the prophetic description of the RAF as “our cloud armies of the future”. The Royal Air Force Memorial was designed by the architect Sir Reginald Bloomfield. |
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| The Angus Watson and Co.Ltd War Memorial | Newcastle upon Tyne Tyne and Wear | Reid Dick carried out the sculptural work on the memorial to the employees of Angus Watson and Co Ltd who gave their lives in the First World War. | |
| Sculpture of Franklin Delano Roosevelt | Grosvenor Square Greater London | Reid Dick was commissioned to sculpt this statue of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. | |
| Statue of George V | Westminster London | This statue stands opposite the Houses of Parliament and it was unveiled by George VI on 22 October 1947. File WORK 20/279 at The National Archives in Kew covers the appointment of Reid Dick and the architect Sir Giles Gilbert Scott to be responsible for this memorial and other files WORK 20/201, WORK 20/202, WORK 20/203 and WORK 20/278 all give background information on the work. The completion of the scheme was delayed by the outbreak of war in 1939. The statue was stored during the war in the quarry at Portland and returned to London in 1946. The statue was unveiled in 1947. | |
| Sculpture “Lady Godiva” | Coventry | Reid Dick was the sculptor of this work in Coventry. On the plinth below the statue are written some words from Tennyson's poem "Lady Godiva"
"Then she rode back, clothed on with chastity. She took the tax away and built herself an everlasting name" inscription |
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| Sculpture "Controlled Energy" | Reid Dick created two sculptures for Unilever House. They are positioned at each end of the building's facade and each depict a large shire horse being reined back. It is as though the strength of the two horses would pull the building apart but for the effort of those pulling them back. | ||
| The Arras Memorial | Arras | The National Archives at Kew have several files on this memorial. File AIR 1/677/21/13/1891 contains a draft of the Introduction to the Register of the Imperial War Graves Commission (now the Commonwealth War Graves Commission) written by their Director of Records, Major H.F. Chettle. Chettle’s covering letter is dated 18 March 1930. Reid Dick sculpted the globe on top of the Arras Flying Services Memorial which is to be found at the Arras Cemetery in Northern France along with the Arras Memorial. A photograph of this memorial is shown below. Reid Dick carved both the badges on the memorial and the great globe, which is 4 foot 6 inches in diameter and weighs almost three tons. The memorial consists of an obelisk with a globe forming a finial on the top. The badges are those of the Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force, Royal Naval Air Service, and the combined badges of Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. The two memorials and cemetery, the work of Sir Edwin Lutyens, are situated in the western part of Arras. The Arras Memorial commemorates almost 35,000 servicemen from the United Kingdom, South Africa and New Zealand who died in the Arras sector between the spring of 1916 and August 1918, the eve of the so-called "Advance to Victory" and who have no known grave. The Arras Flying Services Memorial commemorates nearly 1,000 airmen of the Royal Naval Air Service, the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Air Force either by attachment from other arms of the forces of the Commonwealth or by original enlistment, who were killed on the Western Front and who also have no known grave. | |
| The Menin Gate Memorial | Ypres Belgium | Reid Dick sculpted the decorative features which adorn the Menin Gate at Ypres, including the lion at the very top. The Menin Gate marks the start of one of the main roads leading from Ypres (Ieper) to the Front Line; the infamous "Menin Road". The gate combines a classical victory arch and mausoleum. Inside and outside are carved the names of 54,896 officers and men of the Commonwealth forces who died in the Ypres salient and have no known grave. The Menin Gate was not in fact big enough to record all the names so was limited to those who died from the outbreak of war to 15 August 1917. The names of the further 34,888 men who died from 16 August 1917 to the end of the war and again have no known grave are recorded on the Tyne Cot Memorial. | |
| Memorial to David Livingstone | Victoria Falls Zimbabwe | Reid Dick was the sculptor of the memorial to David Livingstone. | |
| Memorial to Lord Levershulme | Port Sunlight Merseyside | This Reid Dick sculpture stands outside the Lady Lever Art Gallery at Port Sunlight. Reid Dick's figures at the base of the obelisk represent “Industry”, “Charity”, “Education” and “Art”. The figure on the top of the obelisk, looking to the sky with outstretched arms represents “Inspiration”. This memorial was completed in 1930 and honours William Hesketh, the first Viscount Leverhulme who founded Lever Brothers Limited. |
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