Monument | War dead, Civilian war dead | WW1, WW2

Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park war memorial

Inscription

{On the central section:}
1914 - 1918 1939 - 1945
Those honoured here died in the service of their country.
Their name liveth for evermore.

{16 bronze tablets, 8 each side, carry the list of 283 names. See Subjects commemorated for the names.}

The tablets are numbered with roman numerals: I - XVI.  Panels 1-10 carry 198 WW1 names in alphabetic sequence. Panel 11 is headed up 'Addenda'. Panels 11-15 carry 81 WW2 names in alphabetic sequence. Panel 16 is headed up 'Netherlands Merchant Navy' and carries 4 names with WW2 dates.

The 4 Dutch names on the last panel are interesting. During WW2 the Dutch government in exile was based in London and there were sufficient Dutch members of the Allied forces that they needed their own club.

This memorial carries a lot of information about each name but it’s not clear what it all is, especially the numbers, so we’ve transcribed just the basic information for each name.  Other websites have transcribed more and researched some of the names: Bethnal Green War Memorials and Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park Hidden Histories Project.

Site: Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park war memorial (1 memorial)

E3, Southern Grove, Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park

These rather fearsome-looking dog emptiers politely apologised for getting in our picture!

Now known as Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park, this was opened in 1841 as 'The City of London and Tower Hamlets Cemetery' but was known simply as Bow Cemetery. Closed for burials in 1966 when the GLC took it over. In 1986 when the GLC was abolished Tower Hamlets took it on. Designated a cemetery park in 1990.

London Gardens Online is very informative but surely not correct in suggesting that this war memorial was erected c.1950. Waymarking informs that this memorial was constructed in 2009 (that is more likely) to replace an earlier memorial which was at the centre of the park. Wish we could find a picture of that because, let us own up - we have rather taken against this memorial: it's almost brutally modern; there is too much information squeezed onto the bronze panels; the layout and the lettering on the panels has no elegance and looks as if it was designed by computer, which it probably was.

Comments are provided by Facebook, please ensure you are signed in here to see them

This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park war memorial

Subjects commemorated i

World War 1

We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came a...

Read More

World War 2

Sorry, we've done no research on WW2, it's just too big a subject. But do vis...

Read More

Load next 200 of 285

Nearby Memorials

Westminster School - old boys fallen in Crimean War & Indian Rebellion

Westminster School - old boys fallen in Crimean War & Indian Rebellion

SW1, Broad Sanctuary

The inscription was written by the Rev. T. W. Weare, Under-Master of Westminster 1841-1861. Our information comes from Westminster Abbey...

War dead | Other war
22 subjects commemorated, 3 creators
Albert Memorial - Prince Albert

Albert Memorial - Prince Albert

SW7, Kensington Road

Albert is shown holding the catalogue of the Great Exhibition, held in this park in 1851 for which he was the driving force. The statue i...

1 subject commemorated, 6 creators
Holy Cross Church, WW1 memorial with names

Holy Cross Church, WW1 memorial with names

WC1, Cromer Street

On the north façade of the church.

War dead | WW1
75 subjects commemorated
Abney Park - CWGC war memorial

Abney Park - CWGC war memorial

N16, Abney Park Cemetery

The screen wall at the back, south, of the memorial carries a number of bronze panels listing the names.

2 subjects commemorated, 2 creators
Edith Cavell statue

Edith Cavell statue

WC2, St Martin's Place

This was the obvious memorial to choose as the first featured memorial for London Remembers, in February 2004. Cavell was executed by the...

War dead | WW1
2 subjects commemorated, 2 creators

Previously viewed

George Arnold

George Arnold

Parishioner of St James Upper Edmonton killed in WW1.

Person

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
BBC Music Day

BBC Music Day

A UK-wide annual celebration of music that aims to unite communities and generations through their love of music. In 2017 in conjunction with the British Plaque Trust, 47 plaques celebrating a wide...

Event, Music / songs

4 memorials
Greater London Council

Greater London Council

Replaced the LCC. The GLC was abolished, some say, because Mrs Thatcher could not abide its left-wing politics, nor its leader, Ken Livingstone.  On its 50th anniversary Diamond Geezer posted a goo...

Group, Politics & Administration

241 memorials
Mrs Dallas-Glyn

Mrs Dallas-Glyn

Born Edinburgh, Scotland as Isabella Gearns. Actress who adopted her mother’s maiden name of Glyn. In spite of her parents’ objections she went to Paris with her first husband Edward Wills to study...

Person, Theatre, Scotland

1 memorial