Erection date: 20/9/2017
{Beneath a representation of the Victoria Cross medal:}
Sergeant William Burman, Rifle Brigade, 20th September 1917
Unveiled by the Mayor of Tower Hamlets and a Rifles contingent of ten.
E1, Arbour Square, Arbour Square Garden
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
William Burman VC
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Soldier. Born William Francis Burman. As a sergeant in the Rifle Brigade (Pri...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
William Burman VC
A department of the government of the UK. From Victoria Cross commemorative p...
The Reverend Nicholas Richards, 1942 - 2006, "Father Nick", rector of St Mary's Rotherhithe 1977 - 2006. London Borough of Southwark - V...
Site of "White Hart Inn", immortalized by Shakespeare in "Henry VI" and Dickens in "Pickwick Papers". Historic Southwark
The current building was designed by Arthur Bailey and built in 1950.
In 1816 to help cure his laudanum addiction Coleridge moved in with his doctor friend James Gilman, in Moreton House, Pond Square. Coleri...
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Crew member of the 'Olga'. Died during the voyage bringing Cleopatra's Needle to London.
The only carillon in London. Dictionary definition of 'Carillon': a set of bells usually hung in a tower and played either from a set of keys and pedals or mechanically.
The steps are rather grand for a public park and look to us as if left over from a now-demolished substantial building (factory, head off...
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