{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...
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Born Scotland but brought up in Kent. His WW2 job involved defusing mines wa...
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National Physical Laboratory stone war memorial
The NPL's history page concentrates on their work (e.g. they weighed Concorde...
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National Physical Laboratory stone war memorial
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Unveiled by Sir Michael Tippett who was President of the Peace Pledge Union at the time.
The first memorial was obviously sinking into the ground when our photograph was taken in 2013. We returned in 2015 and photographe...
Conservative Prime Minister: 1885-6; 1886-92; 1895-1902. Too many names: Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil. Also known as Lord Robert Cecil (before 1865), and Viscount Cranborne (1865-1868). Born...
Born in "The Lodge" in Helensburgh, near Glasgow. Inventor of mechanical television. Picture of him demonstrating a prototype at Selfridges, 1925. Died in Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex.
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