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 ...
28 victims are buried here; another 6-11 victims (numbers differ between sources) were buried elsewhere. Of these 28, 12 were children (b...
The Batterea 'manor' at this time was an area mainly laid out as strip fields, used for farming and grazing. It remained unbuilt-up until...
Around the monument are 8 standing, crowned statues of Eleanor. This is a recreation of one of 12 Eleanor Crosses erected by King Edward ...
An unusual and unsuccessful siting of a three-dimensional monument. One face is presented to the pavement, the rest of the monument is be...
The 113 names are grouped by the location/date of the bomb: 88 people ("also 9 persons unidentified" at Coronation Avenue on 13 October 1...
