Prince George, Duke of Cambridge

Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, was made chairman of the committee to erect a memorial to his cousin Prince George, Duke of Cambridge. The architect John Belcher and sculptor Adrian Jones collaborated on the project. In July 1906, while the statue was being sculpted at Jones's studio on Church Street, Chelsea, he was visited on one occasion by Queen Alexandra, accompanied by her daughter Princess Victoria, Crown Princess Sophia of Greece, Duchess of Sparta, and Prince George of Greece and Denmark. By the following October, the committee had changed its mind on the location of the statue. The new War Office building had opened in August, and they requested an amendment to…

Jones sculpted the Duke of Cambridge on horseback, wearing the full-uniform of a Field Marshal. It included his medals, such as four orders of knighthood and his campaign medals. The figure holds in its hand a baton, intended to represent the one which was presented to the Duke's father by King William IV, and in the other hand it holds the reins of the horse. On the sides of the plinth there are two bas-relief panels showing the Duke's connection with the Grenadier Guards and the 17th Lancers.