The British Nieuport Memorial is a First World War memorial , located in the Belgian port city of Nieuwpoort (French: Nieuport ), which is at the mouth of the River Yser . The memorial lists 547 names of British officers and men with no known grave who were killed in the Siege of Antwerp in 1914 or in the defence of this part of the Western Front from June to November 1917. Those that fought in 1914 were members of the Royal Naval Division . The fighting in 1917, when XV Corps defended the line from Sint-Joris to the sea, included the German use of chemical weapons such as mustard gas and Blue Cross .
12-499: Designed by the Scottish architect William Bryce Binnie , the memorial is an 8-metre-high pylon of Euville stone, a limestone from Euville . The names of those commemorated are cast on bronze panels surrounding the base of the pylon. Three lions, carved by the British sculptor Charles Sargeant Jagger , stand guard at the corners of the memorial's triangular paved platform. Around the top of
24-601: A second Bar in 1918 when he again took the place of an officer who had been killed. At the close of the war he took up a position as assistant architect at the Imperial War Graves Commission (now Commonwealth War Graves Commission ), and was promoted to deputy director in 1920. He spent much of the post-war years in France and Belgium designing memorials, including the one at Nieuwpoort in West Flanders . He
36-738: A staff officer and general for the Directorate of Military Intelligence for most of the war, being appointed Adjutant-General to the Forces in September 1918. The King Albert I Memorial , dedicated to both the King and his Belgian troops during the First World War , is located directly next to the Nieuport Memorial. William Binnie (architect) William Bryce Binnie FRIBA (1 July 1886 – 1963)
48-574: The Army during World War I , eventually attaining the rank of major in the Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) . His actions gained him the Military Cross "for conspicuous gallantry" in 1916 when he took command of a company which had lost its officers. His citation notes that "Though buried by a shell early in the morning, he never ceased his fine work". In 1917 he was awarded a Bar to his decoration, and
60-485: The Glasgow School of Art , where he was awarded a gold medal and a travel scholarship, which he used to spend a year Italy . In 1910 he moved to New York City to work at Warren & Wetmore , where amongst other buildings, he worked on some of the detailings of the interior of Grand Central Station . In 1913 he returned to Britain to work as a draughtsman under London architect Leonard Martin. Binnie served in
72-620: The Hotel Phoenicia at Floriana (1939) and The Farsons Brewery (1950), designed with Lewis V. Farrugia. Claude Ferrier Claude Waterlow Ferrier FRIBA (1879 – 6 July 1935) was a Scottish architect , who specialised in the Art Deco style. Ferrier was the only son of the physician and neurologist Sir David Ferrier , and a nephew (through his mother) of the painter Ernest Albert Waterlow . Educated at Marlborough College , Ferrier started his career as an apprentice at
84-603: The Imperial War Graves Commission , in 1927. Buildings he worked on included: Ferrier did not live to see the completion of Highbury; he was killed after being struck by a motorcyclist in a crash the previous summer. A bust of him used to stand inside the West stand of Arsenal Stadium . The bust is now in storage and it will be placed somewhere in Arsenal F.C.'s new stadium Emirates Stadium . This article about
96-517: The bronze name panels is cast the words from Laurence Binyon 's famous poem, "For the Fallen": They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, We will remember them. The memorial was unveiled on 1 July 1928 by Sir George Macdonogh , a commissioner for the Imperial War Graves Commission (now Commonwealth War Graves Commission ). Macdonogh had been
108-521: The practice alone. His work in this later period, in an Art Deco style, included the design of 81 New Bond Street and an extension to the National Temperance Hospital (now part of University College Hospital ). The East Stand of Arsenal Stadium , Highbury , (1936) was designed by Ferrier and Binnie and is now a Grade II listed building . He also undertook commissions in Malta , including
120-536: The practice of Aston Webb , but left to start his own practice at the age of just 23. Ferrier spent much of his time in Continental Europe , especially in France , which influenced his work; an avowed Francophile , he published an English - French dictionary of technical terms. He later returned to London, and set up a practice based in Westminster with William Binnie , a former Deputy Director of Works at
132-852: Was a Scottish architect. He trained in Scotland but practiced initially in New York and then London. During the First World War he served with the Black Watch and was decorated for bravery. Afterwards he worked for the Imperial War Graves Commission until 1927, when he returned to private practice in London. Binne was born at Kingscavil , by Linlithgow . From 1904 he was articled to architect Robert Bryden in Glasgow, moving to John James Burnet 's office after Bryden's death in 1906. Between 1908 and 1910 Binnie studied at
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#1733085868762144-700: Was admitted to the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) in 1919 as an Associate, and became a Fellow in 1925. His nominators for fellowship were Sir Herbert Baker , Sir Reginald Blomfield , and Sir Edwin Lutyens , all of whom had been prominent in the work of the War Graves Commission. In 1927 he returned to London to set up a practice with fellow Scot Claude Ferrier , who was already established in Westminster . The association lasted until Ferrier's accidental death in 1935, after which Binnie continued
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