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 ...
Sir Ambrose Heal, 1872 - 1959, furniture designer, and retailer lived here 1901 - 1917. English Heritage
July 2015 The Mirror reported that 4 of these plaques (Benny Hill, Tommy Cooper, Sid James and Irene Handl) were stolen just prior to the...
London Borough of Southwark Richard Church, 1893-1972, writer and poet, lived here, 1905-1912. Plaque renewed 2010.
We photographed this plaque in 2003 in its original location, along with a Braille panel which does seem to be truly lost.
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