Mercantile Marine Memorial - WW2
EC3, Trinity Square Garden
Designed as an extension to the WW1 Mercantile Marine memorial to the south. A semi-circular sunken garden contains the names of almost ...
Designed as an extension to the WW1 Mercantile Marine memorial to the south. A semi-circular sunken garden contains the names of almost ...
George V should have been on duty to unveil this but he was seriously ill so Queen Mary took over, the first time she had played such a r...
The crucifix is supported on a Tuscan column. Some sections of the list of names are so badly weather-damaged that the names there are p...
Unveiled by Lieut General Sir Ivor Maxse. The Supreme Court explains why this memorial is here and confirms that the model for the main ...
9 foot bronze. The statues represent a crew from a WW2 Comet tank.
The typeface used on the sides of the monument replicates that used in war-time ration books. The unveiling was one of the ceremonies to ...
The gun on top of the monument is a BL 9.2 inch Howitzer Mk I, carved in stone, which makes it surreal and all the more powerful. On the ...
An error in one of the names (Cleathers / Cleathero) has been pointed out to us and has been confirmed as being on the memorial itself. W...
The memorial that Wilson had just unveiled before his death is the main war memorial, not the one to Fryatt.
Prior to the restoration of the station these memorials stood elsewhere. The war memorial was originally erected in the booking hall. One...