Erection date: 13/11/1921
{On the large, original plaque:}
In grateful and affectionate memory of the men of Chiswick who fell in the Great War, 1914 - 1918.
{In lead lettering on the section of the granite plinth below the WW1 plaque:}
And in the world war 1939 - 1945.
W4, Chiswick High Road
Originally surrounded by metal railings which have since been replaced with the hedge.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Chiswick war memorial - Turnham Green
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came a...
Sorry, we've done no research on WW2, it's just too big a subject. But do vis...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Chiswick war memorial - Turnham Green
From Historic England: Engineer and architect to the Chiswick Urban District ...
There are so many issues with this memorial, it's difficult to know where to begin. We take the main part of the inscription to mean tha...
Names are inscribed on the vertical faces of the 4 steps leading up to the plinth. Many of these are too weather-beaten to read so we hav...
The instruction "See that ye conquer by living as we have conquered by dying" sounds like a quote but we can't locate it. The WW1 names ...
{Front of memorial:} International Brigade In honour of the volunteers who left Hammersmith and Fulham to fight in the International Brig...
The letters/numbers at the end of many of the entries refer to the location of the person's grave. Each entry includes the date of death....
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