Image by Elliott & Fry bromide print. Used under license to NPG x86245 © National Portrait Gallery, London |
Sir Herbert Baker
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William Bryce Binnie, M. C. and Bar
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Image by Elliott & Fry bromide print. Used under license to NPG x86388 © National Portrait Gallery, London. |
Sir Reginald Theodore Blomfield
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Image by Walter Stonemanbromide print, 1931. Used under license to NPG x166253 © National Portrait Gallery, London. |
Sir John James Burnet
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Charles Henry Holden
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Henry Philip Cart De Lafontaine
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Image by Elliott & Frybromide print, 1950. Used under license to NPG x86986 © National Portrait Gallery, London. |
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George Esslemont Gordon Leith, M. C.
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Sir Robert Lorimer
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Sir Edwin Lutyens
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Image used with the permission of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission |
Captain William Clement Von Berg, M. C.
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Harold Chalton Bradshaw
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Bradshaw was a Liverpool-born architect. He was a Territorial before the war and was commissioned into the Royal Engineers. He was awarded the Italian War Cross. He was the first Secretary of the Royal Fine Arts Commission, established in 1924. His design work included several Commonwealth War Graves Commission First World War cemeteries and memorials, including the Cambrai Memorial in France and the Ploegsteert Memorial to the Missing and its surrounding cemetery. He also designed the Guards' Division Memorial in St. James's Park in London. |
William Harrison Cowlishaw
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Cowlishaw lived in Norton, Hertfordshire, at that time something of an artists' colony. At the end of World War I, Cowlishaw like many Arts and Crafts architects of the period, was commissioned by the Imperial War Graves Commission to design cemeteries and memorials across France and Belgium under the direction of Sir Frederick G. Kenyon, the Commission's advisor on architecture. Cowlishaw was responsible for the design of the impresssive Pozieres British Cemetery and its Memorial to the Missing on the Somme. Amongst the many cemeteries designed by him are the plot within Zillebeke Churchyard, Grootebeek British Cemetery, Meath Cemetery, Villers–Guislain and Joncourt British Cemetery Whilst at the Commission, he worked with Charles Holden a relationship that continued after the memorial work was completed. |
George Hartley Goldsmith
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Trained at the Manchester Art School and Victoria University; articled to James Horsfall, Roger Oldham and Henry Goldsmith. He was the Assistant draughtsman to Lutyens 1907-1910. Independent practice in Manchester 1910. War service as Major; MC. Appointed Assistant Architect 27th May 1919, reference provided by Edwin Lutyens. Designed 67 cemeteries and the Memorial to the Missing at La Ferté on the Marne. He left the Commission on the 31st July 1927. He later worked for the Midland Bank and designed banks at Knotty Ash (1936) and Elstree Way (1942). Died 1967.
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Sir Frank Higginson
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Captain in the Canadian Army 1914-1918. Appointed Assistant Architect 26/11/1918, Deputy Director of Works 07/08/1919. Designed cemeteries including Cabaret Rouge (1926). Chief Administration Officer 1928-38; Director of Works and Controller 1938-47; succeeded Ware as Secretary 1947-56. Knighted 1956.
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Arthur James Scott Hutton
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Was articled to Duncan MacNaughtan & Son of Glasgow in 1909, studying at the Glasgow School of Architecture under Eugène Bourdon. In March 1915 he seved in the Royal Engineers in France, supervising and designing hospitals, camps, bakeries, halls and other buildings. He retired from the Royal Engineers a Captain in September 1919. On 5 September he was appointed architect to the Imperial War Graves Commission in France Belgium and Germany, working under Sir Herbert Baker, Sir Reginald Blomfield and Sir Edwin Lutyens to execute their designs for British military cemeteries as well as designing and carrying out many himself. He designed 67 cemeteries including Marzargues Indian Cemetery, Longueval, Fricourt and the Memorial at Arques-la-Bataille. He also assisted Lorimer on cemeteries in Germany. |
Verner O. Rees
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Trained with Caroe & Passmore. Assistant to Lutyens 1910-12, then to New York. In Artist's Rifles during the War. Won competition, with G.H. Holt, for Memorial to the Missing at Soissons, 1925; design executed by Commonwealth War Graves Commission, sculpture by Eric Kennington. Also designed London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, (with P. Morley Horder), 1925. President of A.A. 1938-39. Died 1966.
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Noel Ackroyd Rew
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Trained at Slade School and Regent Street Polytechnic 1897-1904. In office of father, C.H. Rew 1902-1912. Independent practice in Berkhampstead from 1912-1914, domestic and ecclesiastical work. He was a Lieutenant with the Royal Engineers from 1915-1919. After the war he designed houses in Berkhampstead and on the 25/05/1919 he was appointed Assistant Architect on a reference supplied by Blomfield. he designed over 42 cemeteries including Bailleul Road and Serre Road. He was appointed part-time on the 01/10/1928 and left the Commission on the 28/02/1929. He then designed houses, schools and Church restorations in Hertfordshire. |
John Reginald Truelove
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Articled to Hall and Fenton of Sheffield. In private practice for 4 years before the war. Captain in 21st London Regiment 1914-1919, reference from Lutyens. Designed several cemeteries including Noyelles-sur-mer (Chinese). Won competitions for Memorials to the Missing at Le Touret and Vis-en-Artois Cemeteries 1928. Completed by Commonwealth War Graves Commission by 1930. He left the commission on the 25/03/1924. Practised in Nottingham until 1929. He later designed Municipal Buildings, Stoke Newington (1937). He worked for the War dept. in 1940 on Anti-Aircraft H.Q's. He died in 1942.
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Edward Prioleau Warren
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Educated at Bristol University. Articled to Bodley & Garner 1880. Independent practice 1885. Ecclesiastical and domestic work, e.g. Great Milton Manor, Oxon., also collegiate work in Oxford and Cambridge, e.g. Caius Cambridge; Balliol, Oxford, Master of Art Workers Guild 1913. Appointed Principal Architect for Mesopotamia 31/10/1919 with honorary rank of Major. Designed cemeteries and Memorial to the Missing at Basra and Tomb of General Maude, Baghdad. Left Commission 31/12/1925. Died 1937.
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