Erection date: 30/5/2014
Lt, Henry R. Bowers lived here, 1891 - 1897, perished with Captain Scott in the Antarctic, 1912.
Bexley Civic Society
DA14, Carlton Road, 13
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Henry Robertson Bowers - Sidcup
One of Scott's four companions who died with him, returning from the South Po...
Born Devonport. Royal Navy Antarctic explorer. With four companions, E.A. Wil...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Henry Robertson Bowers - Sidcup
Environmental group. Founded in the 1970s with the objectives to improve the ...
To people who don't have any prior knowledge that last sentence is a bit of a non sequitur.
The plaque was unveiled by the writer and former MP Gyles Brandreth.
It seems likely that "1922" is the date the plaque was erected - exactly 50 years after Mazzini's death.
The plaque can be seen in our photo, in the pavement near the brown door.
2018: Eamonn Doyle has written to correct our "east to west", saying that the names actually run west to east. That sounds like the sort...
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