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...
The plaque would be more accurate were it placed at number 38 which was the house destroyed by the bomb. In 1950 numbers 35-38 were later...
We came across a reference to this HQ in the memoir “My Candle at Both Ends” by John Carveth Wells (1911 – 1946). Aged 12 his mother too...
We cannot explain the connection with Joyce Grenfell.
Royal Garrison Church of St. George, destroyed by flying bomb on 13th July 1944. Consecrated ground preserved as a memorial garden and co...
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