Monument

Walworth Boy Scouts Tragedy - new memorial

Erection date: 1992

Inscription

{Left hand page of an open book:}
To commemorate the scouts of the 2nd Walworth Troop drowned off Leysdown, Isle of Sheppey, on 4th August 1912.

{On either side of a boy scouts' trail sign:}
Gone Home

{List of the names and ages of the 9 victims. See Commemorated subjects for the list.}

{Right hand page of the book, beneath the Boy Scouts' emblem:}
This stone erected in 1992 replaces the memorial designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott.

Donated by Kellaways Funeral Service & Francis Chappell Monumental Masons Ltd. With the help of the Friends of Nunhead Cemetery.

Site: Walworth Boy Scouts Tragedy (3 memorials)

SE15, Linden Grove, Nunhead Cemetery

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk

This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Walworth Boy Scouts Tragedy - new memorial

Subjects commemorated i

Walworth Boy Scouts Tragedy

On Saturday the 3rd August 1912, the 2nd Walworth Troop of five adults and tw...

Read More

William Beckham

William Beckham is the boy lying on his side on the left at the front in the ...

Read More

Albert Edward Dack

Albert Edward Dack is the boy lying on his side on the front right in the pho...

Read More

Noel Falconer Filmer

Noel Falconer Filmer is 2nd from the right of the nine boys standing in the p...

Read More

Thompson James Filmer

Thompson James Filmer is the 1st on the left of the seven boys sitting in the...

Read More

Show all 12

This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Walworth Boy Scouts Tragedy - new memorial

Created by i

Francis Chappell & Sons

Funeral directors in South London and Kent. Formerly a family firm, now owned...

Read More

Kellaway's Funeral Service

Firm of undertakers located in South East London.

Read More

Friends of Nunhead Cemetery (FONC)

Founded to represent all those with an interest in the cemetery. The group se...

Read More

This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Walworth Boy Scouts Tragedy - new memorial

Also at this site i

Walworth Boy Scouts Tragedy - lost statue

Walworth Boy Scouts Tragedy - lost statue

This monument, now lost, was paid for by public subscription. This photo come...

Read More

Walworth Boy Scouts Tragedy - original memorial

Walworth Boy Scouts Tragedy - original memorial

The base can be seen in our photo immediately behind the 'open book' which is...

Read More

Nearby Memorials

Quebec Chapel War memorial

Quebec Chapel War memorial

W1, Bryanston Street, Parish Church of The Annunciation

From the church's website: A Chapel of Ease, known as the Quebec Chapel, was originally on the site from 1787 and this was replaced by th...

War dead | WW1
70 subjects commemorated
Martin Dinnegan

Martin Dinnegan

N19, Cornwallis Park

{On the marble memorial plaque:} In loving memory of Martin Dinnegan, our beloved son, a dear brother and friend. Your life was taken sud...

1 subject commemorated
Penge war memorial

Penge war memorial

SE20, High Street, Penge Recreation Ground

The WW2 civilian list identifies 14 people who worked in civil defence and what their role was. Usually lists of civilian dead give the f...

War dead, Civilian war dead | WW1, WW2
743 subjects commemorated, 2 creators
Sheen war memorial

Sheen war memorial

TW9, Sheen Lane

This monument appears in a scene shot on location in the 1973 movie 'Vault of Horror' (segment 5 'Drawn and Quartered'). There you see th...

3 subjects commemorated
Joan Littlewood - Stratford statue

Joan Littlewood - Stratford statue

E15, Theatre Square, Theatre Royal Stratford East

This bronze statue, called The Mother of Modern Theatre, is based on an iconic photograph of Littlewood in the 1970s, when the theatre wa...

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator