Spent a while going through your time line. Did the SUVCW ever raise the money in total to replace the bronze plaque? thank you for sharing.
No, they never did. I haven’t been in touch with them since they asked me to put the request for donations onto my website. Absolutely lovely people. But many were older than me when those pictures were taken and I’m 78 now, so not sure who is in charge or what their primary interests are.
When I was researching the monument, I read a newspaper account of one of the workman being under it when it toppled over. Terrible.
I always thought it was so sad that Henry wanted to look at the horse farm he loved and that he wanted to be remembered. He designed the monument. But with that plaque gone, it was almost symbolic that his monument was being eaten by the forest.
The blueprint for the brass plaque came from a descendant of Edward’s with whom I was in frequent contact. She sent the photo of her grandmother Agnes and her uncle Henry Jr. She’s since died and I haven’t been in contact with any of her siblings or nieces/nephews. The family also had Henry’s military jacket and sword.