Royal Academy of Music

Royal Academy of Music

The Royal Academy of Music Memorials

I had the opportunity to visit the Royal Academy of Music at the end of 2010. It was a thoroughly enjoyable visit. The impression that the Academy gave out was one of the utmost excellence and the quality of musicianship was of the highest order. To obtain a place at the Academy and Graduate places you amongst the finest. However I did not expect to find the memorials in the entrance hall. I expect many students have seen and acknowledged their presence, few will know the names. I feel that members of the general public will not know of their existence. They are however reproduced below. They are copy-write free, but I would love an acknowledgement if you download them. If you use the on a website a link would be superb. I have a higher resolution image should you need it. They will probably not email, being too big. There were two faintly bemused security/janitors as I photographed the memorials.

This is the inscription on the tall green Memorial.

" TO THE MEMORY OF

THE MEMBERS OF THE

R.A.M. WHO FELL IN THE

GREAT WAR 1914-1919

WILLIAM H. BAMBRIDGE

Captain P.S. Batt. R. Fusiliers

RALPH BOTTING

Lieut Inns of Court O.T.C.

EDWARD HENRY COLE

Corp. Royal Bucks Hussars

LIONEL DOWN

Sapper R.E. Signals

GODFREY GARDNER

Lieutenant Suffolk Regiment

LEONARD HART

L/Cpl. 6 Royal West Kent Regiment

HUBERT KIVER

Lieut. East Surrey Regiment

ALBERT MAIDEN

Private Artists Rifles

WILLIAM B. MANSON

Private London Scottish

RICHARD SAMPSON

Lieut. Public Schools Batt.

HENRY SANDERS

Lieut. Queen Victoria's Rifles

HARPER SEED

Lieut, 17 Sherwood Foresters

FRANCIS J. THORNS

Lieut. Royal Bucks Regiment

ARTHUR B. WILKINSON

Lieut. 2/5 Royal Sussex Regt."

Along the bottom are the names

"F.S.APPLEBY

Private 5 Essex Regiment

WILLIAM J. PERRY

Cpl. 21 Batt. Middlesex Regt.

J. L.SUTTON

Driver Royal Field Artillery"

Plaque commemorating those who fell in WW2

The small grey plaque commemorates those that fell in World War Two 1939 - 1945. The names are " Basil Godfrey BENSTED, Alice Purves FORTUNE, Michael Savage HEMING, Bohdan HUBICKI, Royston Clifford OULSON, Simmon LATUTIN, Muriel Evaline Dorothy SHIELDS-SCHIBILD, David Carl TAYLOR, Douglas THOMSON,, William George BLAND, Raymond Thomas HUNN."

Fiftieth Anniversary

Simmon Latutin has a separate plaque too.  There is a biography of Simmon here. The other plaque mentions the refurbishment that was done in 1995.