The quotation comes from Binyon's 1914 poem, ‘For the Fallen’. The memorial must have been renovated in 2010.
All the text is turned sideways, so it avoids being upside down, whether viewed from inside or outside the garden. This memorial, while s...
{On the large plaque with an image of protesters on a map of Africa:} Sharpeville 21st March 1960 "They died so others may live" {On the...
{Beneath the Board of Ordnance badge with the motto 'Sua Tela Tonanti' (To the warrior his arms), and between two soldiers with bowed hea...
This website gives the name of the recipients of the Victoria Cross from Lewisham and nearby areas.
The plaque says that 8 people were killed but has the names of only five: four women and one 7-year-old girl.
"They died that we might live." is a quite common inscription on war memorials and sounds like a quotation but we cannot identify a source.
Names are inscribed on the vertical faces of the 4 steps leading up to the plinth. Many of these are too weather-beaten to read so we hav...
A very modern war memorial (which even has seating space for the weary), but we cannot find any information about the designer/sculptor. ...
Unveiled on Windrush Day. A very simple design, we think the horizontal obelisk may represent the fallen.
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