{On a frieze along the wall to the left of the entrance:}
To the glorious memory
{On a stone plaque below this: a reverse relief of a running fox (coloured)}
{On a frieze along the wall to the right of the entrance:}
of the Fifth Army, 1916 - 1918.
The red fox was the insignia of the Fifth Army.
Site: St Mary's Hospital - Fifth Army (2 memorials)
W2, Norfolk Place, St Mary's Hospital - Cambridge wing
The ugly modern entrance, plonked on the front of the building, has totally ruined the integrity of this memorial.
The Sun News-Pictorial (Melbourne, Vic.), Page 10 carries a short announcement: "Memorial To Fifth Army. LONDON, Monday — The Queen headed the subscription list for a £25,000 memorial to the Fifth Army which is being organised by the Daily Telegraph. The memorial will take the form of a perpetual endowment of two wards in St. Mary’s Hospital Paddington."
In his later life Gough was involved in the management and fundraising of Kings College Hospital and St Mary's Hospital. This must go some way to explaining the presence of this memorial here.
(The small framed notice is about the benches below.)
We were surprised to learn that . He was convicted at the Nuremberg trials, served 20 years imprisonment and was released in 1966. He visited London in 1973 and again in 1981, when he suffered a stroke and died later at this hospital on 1 September.
Comments are provided by Facebook, please ensure you are signed in to see them