{On the plaque fixed to the front of the stone:}
To the glorious memory of those members of the staff of the National Physical Laboratory who gave their lives for their country.
{followed by two lists each of 5 names in alphabetical order, under the headings:}
1914 - 1918 1939 - 1945
The National Archive BIS War Memorials has research about all the names on this war memorial.
TW11, Hampton Road
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
National Physical Laboratory stone war memorial
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came a...
Sorry, we've done no research on WW2, it's just too big a subject. But do vis...
Born Scotland but brought up in Kent. His WW2 job involved defusing mines wa...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
National Physical Laboratory stone war memorial
The NPL's history page concentrates on their work (e.g. they weighed Concorde...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
National Physical Laboratory stone war memorial
NPL National Phusical Laboratory Liriodendron Tulipifera Tulip tree This tree...
Unveiling page tells that the sarsen stone was donated by a farmer in the Avebury area of Wiltshire. We cannot explain the "MEC" - perhap...
2021: The granite stones remain but all these plaques are gone.
Si Je Puis ('If I can' or 'I will do it if I can') is Morris's motto inscribed in the porch at the Red House.
Lansbury's house was destroyed by bombs only a few months after he died. We're sure Tower Hamlets had a good reason for creating a new pl...
The first memorial was obviously sinking into the ground when our photograph was taken in 2013, but we cannot discover when i...
