Erection date: 7/11/2014
{Below an image of a Victoria Cross medal:}
Captain John Vallentin, the South Staffordshire Regiment, 7th November 1914.
SE1, Lambeth Road, St Mary's Gardens
The plaque is laid in the ground, to the right in our photo. The building which now houses the Garden Museum used to be St Mary at Lambeth church. These gardens, in the photo, were created in 1932 as a result of the building of a new Lambeth Bridge.
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John Vallentin VC
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came a...
Born as John Franks Vallentin in the parish of St Mary-at-Lambeth (the church...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
John Vallentin VC
A department of the government of the UK. From Victoria Cross commemorative p...
To people who don't have any prior knowledge that last sentence is a bit of a non sequitur.
This difficult-to-photograph memorial is placed, to the left, inside the railings at the west front of the abbey, and we think we would h...
John Constable, 1776 - 1837, artist, lived here in the summers of 1821 - 1822. Erected by the Hampstead Plaque Fund
That's not a typo in the transcription - The RWF used the spelling Welch in their title, although its use is not consistent in this memor...
Historic Southwark Here was "Stones End" where "Town Street" met the old turnpike road, one of the parliamentary forts erected to defend...
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