Erection date: 27/7/1917
{Incised in the marble below the medallion:}
To the memory of Captain Charles Fryatt, July 27th 1916, from the neutral admirers of his brave conduct and heroic death.
The Netherlands Section of the League of Neutral States Jul 27th 1917.
{Written in the lower left of the bronze medallion:}
H. T. H. van Golberdinge
Site: WW1, Fryatt and Wilson (3 memorials)
EC2, Liverpool Street Station
Prior to the restoration of the station these memorials stood elsewhere. The war memorial was originally erected in the booking hall. One can see that the arrangement has been rather cobbled together - the lift would not have been part of any original design. The stone frieze, "Great Eastern Railway", was salvaged from Harwich House.
2024: Londonist comments on the lift that is integrated into this memorial.
2025: In his 'Memoirs of an Infantry Officer' Siegfried Sassoon describes (on page 208) arriving to catch a train to Cambridge in the immediate aftermath of the 13 June 1917 bomb attack which killed 13 people.
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