Erection date: 7/11/2014
{Below an image of a Victoria Cross medal:}
Captain John Vallentin, the South Staffordshire Regiment, 7th November 1914.
SE1, Lambeth Road, St Mary's Gardens
The plaque is laid in the ground, to the right in our photo. The building which now houses the Garden Museum used to be St Mary at Lambeth church. These gardens, in the photo, were created in 1932 as a result of the building of a new Lambeth Bridge.
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John Vallentin VC
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came a...
Born as John Franks Vallentin in the parish of St Mary-at-Lambeth (the church...
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John Vallentin VC
A department of the government of the UK. From Victoria Cross commemorative p...
The plaques are around the driveway entrance under the building to the left in our photo. However, photos at Fitzrovia News make us think...
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Patrick Blackett, 1897 - 1974, physicist and scientific advisor, lived here 1953 - 1969. English Heritage
This church bears a blue plaque, to the far left, and two pink boards on which the text is becoming difficult to read. That to the right ...
