Green plaque № 50812

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# Green Plaque № 50812 Standing before Hyde Park Barracks on South Carriage Drive, you're at the precise spot where Major Matthew Fontaine Maury Meiklejohn's heroism reached its tragic culmination on that June day in 1913—not in a distant battlefield, but here in the heart of London, where a Gordon...

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Hyde Park Barracks, South Carriage Drive, Westminster

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To the honoured memory of Major Matthew Fontaine Maury Meiklejohn, V. C., Gordon Highlanders, killed on duty opposite this spot on June 28th anno domini, 1913. He gave his life to save others.