WAFF
SW1, Victoria Embankment, Victoria Embankment Gardens - Whitehall section
The building behind is the former Air Ministry. We thank Jamie Davis for finding this link to the British Pathe news film of the unveiling. Laid into the platform are four bronze badges, anti-clockwise: RAF, RSF, Met Police, WAFF. They are rather fine so we have treated each one as a memorial.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Trenchard - WAFF
Formed by the British Colonial Office and served in WW1 and WW2. In 1928 bec...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Trenchard - WAFF
The plaques read left to right chronological by birth date. This modern building sports a clock (of course) with Roman numeral hours and...
Tallow Chandlers Hall The Company has occupied this site since 1476.
There has been a church on this site since 1262. The current building was designed by George Gilbert Scott and erected in 1872.
The portcullis plaque to the left is a fire insurance mark of the Westminster insurance company like this one at the Museum of London.
In the photograph of the current building the plaque is behind the portico.
