Erection date: 28/5/2016
{Below an image of a Victoria Cross medal:}
Major Francis Harvey, Royal Marine Light Infantry, 31st May 1916.
The plaque is on the ground near the Lewisham war memorial.
SE13, Lewisham High Street
The 6 VC plaques are laid into the ground in front of the monument.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Major Francis Harvey VC
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came a...
During World War I, in addition to their usual stations aboard ship, Royal Ma...
Soldier. Born Francis John William Harvey in Upper Sydenham. Kent. He was pos...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Major Francis Harvey VC
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:
Major Francis Harvey VC
This website gives the name of the recipients of the Victoria Cross from Lewi...
The Lewisham War Memorials website says that the inscription on the main memo...
IanVisits posted about this gate and included a map showing where the Bridewell used to be.
Cy Grant, 1919 - 2010, activist,writer,musician, pioneering actor and WWII RAF navigator, lived here 1962 - 2010. Nubian Jak Community Tr...
{Beneath the Waltham Forest logo:} David Bailey, CBE, born January 1938. The celebrated artist and photographer was born in this house a...
The Latin quote is from the Roman poet Horace's Odes and translates roughly as "It is sweet and right to die for your country."
Catling wrote the poem as well as creating the sculpture. Doesn't that cushion look lovely and comfy - just the place to lay a weary head...
A large piece of pre-Cambrian granite mounted on three smaller stones, which give it a rather comical stance.
An adjacent information panel gives extensive information about the attack and the victims.
During WW2 the US armed forces worshipped at the Grosvenor Chapel and partied at Rainbow Corner. This seems a good place to mention the searchable on-line honour roll of 28,000 Americans based in ...
