The Imperial Camel Corps Memorial in Victoria Embankment Gardens

The Imperial Camel Corps Memorial is an outdoor sculpture located in Victoria Embankment Gardens, on the Thames Embankment to the east of Charing Cross station, in London, England. The memorial commemorates the Imperial Camel Corps, a unit of mounted infantry created in December 1916 from troops that had served in the Gallipoli campaign in the Dardanelles.

Sculpted by Major Cecil Brown, who served in the Corps, the memorial features a bronze statue of a man riding a camel on a Portland stone pedestal. Bronze panels on its four sides include two plaques listing the names of all 346 men who died while serving with the Corps in Egypt, Sinai and Palestine between 1916 and 1918. These names include 191 from Australia on the east plaque, and 106 from the UK, 41 from New Zealand, and 9 from India on the west plaque.

The bronze plaque to the south depicts two soldiers running, while the north face of the stone plinth bears a dedication: "To the Glorious and Immortal Memory of the Officers, N.C.O.s and Men of the Imperial Camel Corps - British, Australian, New Zealand, Indian - who fell in action or died of wounds and disease in Egypt, Sinai, and Palestine, 1916, 1917, 1918." The south face is also inscribed with a list of the engagements of the Corps from 1916 to 1918.

Lieutenant-General Sir Philip Chetwode, who was the first commander of the Desert Mounted Corps, unveiled the memorial on 22 July 1921. The Bishop of London, Arthur Winnington-Ingram, delivered the dedication. The memorial received a Grade II listing in 1958 and was restored by Westminster City Council in 1999.

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