{Inscribed on the stone below the casket:}
Vernon House was bought by The Overseas League in 1921 and is dedicated to the perpetual memory of those citizens of the British Empire who laid down their lives in the Great War and to the service of the ideal for which they died.
SW1, Park Place, Overseas House
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Overseas League
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came a...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Overseas League
The Royal Over-Seas League was founded in 1910 by Sir Evelyn Wrench to foster...
We are grateful to Christina Ilonka Jansen for writing to us about these plaques. She was working as Cultural Counsellor at the Dutch Em...
In later life he became a school caretaker in Tower Hamlets, which is the only connection we can find between him and the area.
The peace symbol, designed by Gerald Holtom, adopted here 1958. London Borough of Hackney
Surely anyone who decides to repaint a plaque should first check what the inscription is meant to be? We've corrected the rector's name, ...
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