Erection date: 2017
PC Alfred Smith, 1880 - 1917, was killed at this site saving factory workers during a WW1 air raid, 13 June 1917.
London Borough of Islington - Islington People's Plaque
EC1, Central Street, 43-45
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
PC Alfred Smith plaque
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came a...
From Islington Tribune: "PC Smith heard the German Gotha G.V aircraft approac...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
PC Alfred Smith plaque
The Islington Book of Remembrance is an impressive undertaking: the database ...
We failed to find this plaque in Dec-Jan 2017, but it is identical to that further south so see there for more details.
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St Luke's feast day is 18 October. It's very possible that the text we can't quite read identifies Shattock as a churchwarden along with ...
Note that that, though blue, this is not an English Heritage plaque. At Beatles in London the 'plaque committee' is given as Richard Port...
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