Erection date: 2017
PC Alfred Smith, 1880 - 1917, was killed at this site saving factory workers during a WW1 air raid, 13 June 1917.
London Borough of Islington - Islington People's Plaque
EC1, Central Street, 43-45
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
PC Alfred Smith plaque
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came a...
From Islington Tribune: "PC Smith heard the German Gotha G.V aircraft approac...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
PC Alfred Smith plaque
The Islington Book of Remembrance is an impressive undertaking: the database ...
He lived on this site prior to moving to the famous Samuel Johnson's House in Gough Square.
Cecil John Kinross, V.C., 1896 - 1957, born here on the 17th February 1896, awarded the Victoria Cross for "most conspicuous bravery in a...
Tobias Matthay, 1858 - 1945, teacher and pianist, lived here. Greater London Council
Samuel Coleridge Taylor, 1875 - 1912, composer of the "Song of Hiawatha" lived here. Greater London CouncilÂ