{Below an image of a Victoria Cross medal:}
Able Seaman Albert McKenzie, Royal Navy, 22nd - 23rd April 1918.
We thank our colleague Alan Patient for this photo.
SE1, Tower Bridge Road
McKenzie was born nearby and continued to live locally so this is a good site for the memorials.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Albert Mckenzie VC plaque
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came a...
Heroic Able Seaman. Born Alice Street, Bermondsey. He was on board HMS Vindic...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Albert Mckenzie VC plaque
A department of the government of the UK. From Victoria Cross commemorative p...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Albert Mckenzie VC plaque
The concrete plinth represents a section of the Zeebrugge harbour wall. We b...
We can't find an image of the school that was bombed. An early school appears on this 1895 map, occupying the northern part of the site, ...
Beryl Brownsword, architect & conservationist, lived here, 1922 - 2007. Bedford Park Society
Our colleague Andrew Behan has done some detailed research on these names and also found a newspaper report of the incident at Trove (The...
Our picture of the plaque is taken from the NW9 section of the excellent and informative 'Walking London One Postcode at a Time' website,...
Plaque unveiled by David Suchet and Loyd Grossman (then chairman of the blue plaques panel).
Our image shows a close-up of the logo on the memorial. We think that the bird (a swallow?) used to be flying in front of an enamelled bl...
