{On three marble slabs attached to the base of the cross:}
To the honoured memory of those employees of the Metropolitan Boroughs of Hackney, Shoreditch and Stoke Newington who made the supreme sacrifice during two world wars, 1914 - 1918 and 1939 - 1945.
E8, Mare Street, Hackney Town Hall
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Hackney Town Hall Cross
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came a...
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This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Hackney Town Hall Cross
Shoreditch Borough Council took over Shoreditch Vestry and was itself taken o...
The names on the monument are of men whose claim to immortality is their role...
The list of names are presented in two columns but unusually they are not lis...
The list of names contains two pairs of duplicates: C. Chipperfield and H. Sm...
The plaque says that 8 people were killed but has the names of only five: fou...
"They died that we might live." is a quite common inscription on war memorial...
