{Below an image of a Victoria Cross medal:}
Second Lieutenant Geoffrey Woolley London Regiment, 20th -21st April 1915
E2, Cambridge Heath Road, Bethnal Green Gardens
In our photo the plaque can be seen laid into the grass behind the pedestrian.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Geoffrey Woolley VC
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came a...
Born St Peter’s Vicarage in Bethnal Green, as Geoffrey Harold Woolley, the vi...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Geoffrey Woolley VC
A department of the government of the UK. From Victoria Cross commemorative p...
To people who don't have any prior knowledge that last sentence is a bit of a non sequitur.
The portrait medallions are on the right hand flank wall, on Cumberlow Avenue. Reading left to right: W. F. R. Stanley; Mrs W. F. Stanley...
We thank Jamie Davis for finding this link to the British Pathe news film of the unveiling and this Newspaper Archive report from the Nor...
Thanks to our colleague Alan Patient for providing this photo.
Ukrainian in the United Kingdom has lots of useful information.
The school was formerly the Linden Lodge School for the Blind, which Shearing attended as a boy. The plaque is on a building far from the...
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
The Camden link has an informative video. When we first visited in August 2023 this plaque was missing (purloined by a local Russian sab...
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