3-078-117 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Statue of the late General C. G. Gordon, at Chatham, unveiled by the Prince of Wales, May 19, 1890. 'The Prince of Wales, on Monday, May 19, visited the Royal School of Military Engineering at Chatham, to unveil the statue of the late Major-General Charles George Gordon, R.E., who was killed at Khartoum. It has been erected by subscription among the Royal Engineers, the Royal Artillery, and the Engineer Volunteers...The statue, which is the work of Mr. Onslow Ford, R.A., sculptor, represents General Gordon in the uniform of an Egyptian General, as Governor-General of the Soudan, riding a camel: the pedestal is inscribed simply "Gordon."...an escort of the West Kent Yeomanry Cavalry attended the Prince...and the streets were lined with troops of the garrison. Around the statue were the boys of the Gordon Home and of the Arethusa training-ship. General Sir Lothian Nicholson, Inspector-General of Fortification, addressed the Prince, as President of the Gordon Memorial Committee. His Royal Highness replied, expressing his sincere admiration of the character of General Gordon, and then unveiled the statue, which had been covered with the Union Jack flag. The band played Gordon's favourite hymn, "For ever with the Lord".' From "Illustrated London News", 1890.