Erection date: 24/3/2018
{Beneath an image of a Victoria Cross medal:}
Lieutenant Alan Jerrard Royal Flying Corps 30th March 1918.
SE13, Lewisham High Street
The 6 VC plaques are laid into the ground in front of the monument.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Alan Jerrard VC
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came a...
Aviator. Born at 13 Vicar's Hill, Lewisham. In WW1 he was a lieutenant in No....
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Alan Jerrard VC
A department of the government of the UK. From Victoria Cross commemorative p...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Alan Jerrard VC
This website gives the name of the recipients of the Victoria Cross from Lewi...
The Lewisham War Memorials website says that the inscription on the main memo...
Pulford Street and the Equitable Gas Works used to occupy this six acre site. In the 1930s the Pulford Street Site Committee was respons...
The piers on either side of the path look like gate-posts but there's no evidence of any gates ever having been attached. Each of the pie...
The plaque was stolen some years ago. In 1994 (300th birthday) the Voltaire Foundation got it put back.
Perhaps the foliage on the plaque is an olive branch.
At first we thought the plaque was deliberately mounted at a jaunty angle but then we saw that a screw has gone missing.
