Erection date: 22/4/2017
{Beneath a representation of the Victoria Cross medal:}
Corporal Edward Foster, East Surrey Regiment, 24th April 1917.
SW18, Fairfield Street, front garden
These plaques are to the north of the fountain in the front garden of Wandsworth Town Hall, on Fairfield Street. The time capsule stone is just outside our photo, to the lower right. Other plaques around this fountain can be found here.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Edward Foster, VC
Born in Streatham. He enlisted in the 13th Battalion (Wandsworth) East Surrey...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Edward Foster, 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:
Edward Foster, VC
{Beneath a representation of the Victoria Cross medal:} Captain Arthur Lascel...
In commemoration of those recipients of the George Cross or Victoria Cross wh...
A video of the unveiling refers to a previous plaque at this site, which contained spelling mistakes and called him Johnny, which he didn...
In a house on this site lived William Hazlitt, 1829. The Corporation of the City of London
The smaller plaque is between the two posts on the right of the photograph.
Between the top line and the line with "Morris" there is space for more than just "by" but no letters reveal themselves.
The sculpture is titled "Great Oaks from Little Acorns". From PMSA:"... holding her hands over an acorn which rests on the top of the wa...
L.C.C. Robert Falcon Scott, Antarctic explorer (1868-1912), lived here.
Milton sitting on the left; Shakespeare on the right; Carnegie's cartouche is inside the porch, above the door. Erected in 1905, Carnegi...
This 1682 statue by Cartwright was commissioned by Clayton and was originally at the centre of a group of figures which formed a frontisp...
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