Horace Smith-Dorrien - Legacy

Legacy

The following memorials have been established:

• Stall plate 14 in the Henry VII Chapel of Westminster Abbey (1913)
• Dorrien, a vineyard area in South Australia (1916)
• Mount Smith-Dorrien, Alberta, Canada (1918)
• Smith-Dorrien Trail and Smith-Dorrien Creek, Alberta
• Smith-Dorrien Institute in Aldershot
• Smith Dorrien Road, Leicester
• Smith Dorrien Avenue, Smith Dorrien Bridge, and Smith Dorrien House, Gibraltar
• Smith Dorrien Street, Netherby, South Australia
• Smith-Dorrien Avenue, Esterhazy, Saskatchewan

In 1931, after his death, the Smith-Dorrien Memorial was added to the Sherwood Foresters Memorial in Crich, Derbyshire, which Smith-Dorrien himself had opened on 6 August 1923.

John Betjeman, mentions Horace in Chapter III "Highgate" of his autobiographical blank-verse poem Summoned by Bells:

In late September, in the conker time,
When Poperinghe and Zillebeke and Mons
Boomed with five-nines, large sepia gravures
Of French, Smith-Dorrien and Haig were given
Gratis with each half-pound of Brooke Bond tea.

Horace also features in the poem "Canada to England" by Craven Langstroth Betts:

Lead out, lead out, Brave Mother, for the sake of sacked Louvain!
Give us our own Smith-Dorrien, yield us the van again!