Day 263: Field Marshal Earl Roberts on his Arab Charger "Volonel"

 

 

 

Unveiled in 1916 on a prominent site opposite Park Gate at Kelvingrove Park,

this bronze sculpture by Harry Bates commemorates Field Marshall Earl Roberts

of Kandahar, Pretoria and Waterford (to give him his full title),

leader of a number of Imperial campaigns.

Considered to be the finest equestrian statue of its day,

 it is an exact replica of a memorial to Roberts unveiled in Calcutta in 1898.