{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...
To many people's disappointment, the pillar itself is not the needle of the s...
{At the front of the plinth/wall:} This memorial was dedicated on 28th July 1...
The sculpture represents Rima, the nature-spirit heroine of Hudson's book "Gr...
The quotation from Hugo is very well-chosen. He was exiled from France for 15...
