{The inscription on the front of the plinth has become illegible, all but:}
... who gave their lives in the wars
1914 – 1918
1939 – 1945
The Rotherhithe people were prescient or just lucky. The way they had worded the text for their WW1 memorial meant that all they had to do in incorporate WW2 was to add the dates and an 's' to 'war'.
SE16, St Marychurch Street, St Mary the Virgin Church
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Rotherhithe 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...
Unless we missed it, Cairns' name is not included in the Green Park Memorial Gate's list of VCs, while the other 3 Chindit VC names are.
When this memorial was unveiled the street was still called Montreal Place.
A City of Westminster information plaque on the ground at the centre of the traffic island provides the following: The Christ Church war...
The short verse, in the voice of the fallen, is touching and manages to be uplifting until the last word. It has been used on a number of...
The quotation comes from Binyon's 1914 poem, ‘For the Fallen’. The memorial must have been renovated in 2010.
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