{On the upper section of the upright below the cross:}
A.M.D.O.
{On the main section of the upright below the cross:}
To the valiant men of the parish who fell in the war, 1914 - 1918.
The lettering is, unusually, made up of dots, pierced in the stone.
NW1, Eversholt Street, St Mary's, Somers Town
Eversholt Street used to be known as Seymour Street.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
St Mary's War Memorial
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came a...
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...
On our first visit there was no plaque, but the 'ghost' marks on the plinth suggest that there was an original central plaque (WW1) with ...
See the George Sparkes fountain in Chelsea for another manifestation of this design.
We believe Higham funded this temporary memorial, rather than just putting in an appearance at the unveiling.
Between 1947 and 2000 eighty peace pagodas were built around the world by the Nipponzan Myohoji Japanese Buddist movement, led by Nichida...
One of Viscount Rothermere's three sons, of which the elder two died in WW1.
Architectural sculptor. Born Westminster. Son of architectural sculptor Samuel Poole and brother of painter Samuel Jr. He studied with G. F. Watts and was a Studio assistant on Physical Energy. Pro...
Known professionally as Mickey Finn he was a percussionist who joined Marc Bolan in late 1969 on bongos/percussion, replacing Steve Took, & was with T-Rex until 1975. It is said he was chosen ...
Bernard 'Benny' Green, jazz musician, saxophonist, writer, author, broadcaster and raconteur. When his long-running BBC radio show was cancelled there were demonstrations outside Broadcasting Hou...
Pioneer anatomist and surgeon. Born in East Kilbride, Scotland. He left school at the age of 13 and after an unremarkable childhood, journeyed south to London to work as a dissector for his brother...
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