{Inscribed on the stone below the casket:}
Vernon House was bought by The Overseas League in 1921 and is dedicated to the perpetual memory of those citizens of the British Empire who laid down their lives in the Great War and to the service of the ideal for which they died.
SW1, Park Place, Overseas House
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Overseas League
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came a...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Overseas League
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Plaque unveiled by Angela Smith Baroness Smith of Basildon, together with members of the Airship Heritage Trust. Wikipedia has this plaq...
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Councillor and member of Housing Committee, Parmiter Street, 1926. Councillor and on the Bethnal Green Baths Committee in 1926. Councillor on the Bethnal Green Housing Committee in 1937.
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