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A.M.D.O.
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To the valiant men of the parish who fell in the war, 1914 - 1918.
The lettering is, unusually, made up of dots, pierced in the stone.
NW1, Eversholt Street, St Mary's, Somers Town
Eversholt Street used to be known as Seymour Street.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
St Mary's War Memorial
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came a...
Designed by Thomas Archer this church was built in 1728, one of the Queen Anne churches. Suffered a direct hit on 10 May 1941 and was gut...
Caroline's Miscellany has an excellent post on Mydiddee. We hope she won't mind if we quote her: "Bligh paid for Mydiddee's funeral and ...
Unveiled in the Somerset House quadrangle in 1924. Moved to the Thames side terrace in 2002.
The names are listed alphabetically but only by first letter of surname, possibly to make the late additions, of which there are 9, less ...
The 3 guardsmen are cast from captured Russian guns. The guns displayed at the rear are those used at the siege of Sebastopol. This was ...
Mosaic artist. Also wrote poetry in Russian and English. Born Russia. Came to England in 1899 to learn English. Spent time in St Petersburg, Edinburgh and Paris. A 1904 visit to see the mosaics in ...
