Erection date: 7/11/2014
{Below an image of a Victoria Cross medal:}
Captain John Vallentin, the South Staffordshire Regiment, 7th November 1914.
SE1, Lambeth Road, St Mary's Gardens
The plaque is laid in the ground, to the right in our photo. The building which now houses the Garden Museum used to be St Mary at Lambeth church. These gardens, in the photo, were created in 1932 as a result of the building of a new Lambeth Bridge.
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John Vallentin VC
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Born as John Franks Vallentin in the parish of St Mary-at-Lambeth (the church...
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John Vallentin VC
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The plaque is located on the side of the building in Cowley Street.
This stone was laid exactly 100 years to the day from his first act of bravery.
Before 1913 when Hilda Doolittle married Richard Aldington they were all living in this street: Pound at no. 10, Doolittle at no. 6, and ...