Erection date: 5/5/2017
{Below an image of a Victoria Cross medal:}
Corporal George Jarratt, Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment), 3rd May 1917.
SE11, Kennington Park Road, Kennington Park
The Jarrett plaque is laid into the tarmac path between this pillar and the Kennington Park air-raid memorial.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
George Jarratt VC
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came a...
Born and brought up in Kennington, he worked as a junior clerk in Beefeater's...
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George Jarratt 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:
George Jarratt VC
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This area has been known as Little Canada Londonist explains why.
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Chairman of the Wandsworth Technical Services Committee 1994. June 2017 the leader of Wandsworth Council.
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