{The inscription on the front of the plinth has become illegible, all but:}
... who gave their lives in the wars
1914 – 1918
1939 – 1945
The Rotherhithe people were prescient or just lucky. The way they had worded the text for their WW1 memorial meant that all they had to do in incorporate WW2 was to add the dates and an 's' to 'war'.
SE16, St Marychurch Street, St Mary the Virgin Church
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Rotherhithe war memorial
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came a...
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An adjacent information panel gives extensive information about the attack and the victims.
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There are so many issues with this memorial, it's difficult to know where to begin. We take the main part of the inscription to mean tha...
The list of names are presented in two columns but unusually they are not listed alphabetically. Apart from the same surnames being group...
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