Erection date: 16/5/2015
{Beneath an image of a Victoria Cross medal:}
Lance Sergeant Douglas Belcher
London Regiment (London Rifle Brigade)
13th May 1915
KT6, Ewell Road
The Belcher plaque is on the stone in the foreground of our photo, and the St Mark's cairn and WW2 memorials behind it.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Douglas Belcher VC
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Soldier. Born Douglas Walter Belcher in Surbiton. He enlisted at the beginnin...
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Douglas Belcher 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:
Douglas Belcher VC
{Plaque on the cairn:} This cairn is of stone from the parish church of St. M...
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In memory of civilians killed in the Surbiton Borough between 1939 - 1945.
{Two panels headed:} In commemoration of World War II, 1939 - 1945 {Followed ...
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