The United Service Club

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London 1898 Silver APOSTLE SPOON Boyston & Son St. Luke
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Sir Walter Besant, in The Fascination of London, published in 1903, continues his survey of London's fashionable Pall Mall clubs with this look at the United Service Club:

At the corner of Pall Mall East and Waterloo Place is the United Service Club built by Nash.

It was instituted after the Battle of Waterloo, and was at first at the corner of Charles Street, where the Junior United Service Club is now located.

The Guards' Monument, in Waterloo Place, was put up in 1859 in memory of the Crimea.

Three figures of guardsmen - Grenadier, Coldstream, and Fusilier - in full marching uniform, stand round a granite pedestal, on which are inscribed the names of the famous Crimean battles; a pile of Russian guns actually brought from Sebastopol completes the group.

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