Erection date: 21/4/2015
{Beneath a representation of the Victoria Cross medal:}
Second Lieutenant, Benjamin Geary, East Surrey Regiment, 20th - 21st April 1915.
SE24, Norwood Road, Brockwell Park
Under the beady eye of this impressive 2015 Escher-inspired mural by Phlegm.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Benjamin Geary VC
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came a...
Soldier. Born Benjamin Handley Geary. He was a second lieutenant attached to ...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Benjamin Geary VC
A department of the government of the UK. From Victoria Cross commemorative p...
We'd read that this plaque was unveiled on Zoom, for Covid reasons, on 5 November 2020. And maybe that was the plan at one stage, but Pau...
2015: Via Facebook Deborah Houlding, who has an interest in astrology, told us that this plaque is not really in the right place - it nee...
One wonders where the pump had been 1904-79, and how did Mrs Reeves acquire this delightful gothic artefact. At the Enfield Society we s...
This plaque is in the V&A's central courtyard.
Role on the lost expedition: Royal marine on SS Erebus. See John Franklin.
Russian-born theatrical designer who worked with ballet choreographer Sir Frederick Ashton from his first choreographed ballet in 1926 until her accidental death in 1953. Fedorovitch designed for s...
Person, Art, Craft / Design, Dance, Theatre, Tragedy, Russia
The 1948 Summer Olympics were the first Summer Olympics held since the 1936 Games in Berlin. The second time London had hosted, 1908 being the first. The 1948 Olympics came to be known as the "Aus...
Citizen and cordwainer (cobbler), first among the leaders of the settlement at Jamestown, Virginia from which began the overseas expansion of the English speaking peoples. Born Lancashire. 16 year...
This garden used to have a low wall along the boundary with the pavement and the plaque was mounted on that. But, 2012, we noticed that ...
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