Credit for this entry to:
Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
{Below an image of a Victoria Cross medal:}
Major Francis Harvey, Royal Marine Light Infantry, 31st May 1916.
The plaque is on the ground near the Lewisham war memorial.
SE13, Lewisham High Street
The 6 VC plaques are laid into the ground in front of the monument.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Major Francis Harvey VC
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Soldier. Born Francis John William Harvey in Upper Sydenham. Kent. He was pos...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Major Francis Harvey 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:
Major Francis Harvey VC
This website gives the name of the recipients of the Victoria Cross from Lewi...
The Lewisham War Memorials website says that the inscription on the main memo...
On this site stood the Pall Mall Restaurant where the Rugby Football Union wa...
The plaque dates the campaign from 1941, but other sources give it as 1942. T...
