{On each side of the crucifix is a wooden plaque:}
Eternal rest give unto them, O Lord.
1914 - 1918, 1939 - 1945
SW18, West Hill, St Thomas a Becket catholic church
Unusually we have taken our picture of the building from the church's own website - it is much better than ours.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
St Thomas a Becket church 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...
On the afternoon of Friday 13th March 2015, a fire started in the Grand Hall. This steel truss had held up the structure for 122 years. W...
Francis Fowke designed the buildings for the 1862 International Exhibition in South Kensington and also some of the items in the neighbou...
The poem was apparently written soon after the memorial was completed. Photo of the engraving. The “ML, 7 April 1952” is probably the f...
The Thames Barrier Park was opened in 2000. The round hole in the roof of the Pavilion represents a searchlight. In our photo the lady in...
As often happens with memorials of this period the 'G's and 'C's are difficult to distinguish - we think we've got them right. The body...
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