{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...
Sorry, we've done no research on WW2, it's just too big a subject. But do vis...
A time capsule is buried beneath this monument. From Londonist: "The box, filled with first world war memorabilia, is fashioned from the...
The memorial that Wilson had just unveiled before his death is the main war memorial, not the one to Fryatt.
This memorial is close to the crash site. There is another in New Addington.
Designed by Aston Webb with figures by Alfred Drury. The Duke of York who unveiled this later became George VI. Also present were the L...
This was the obvious memorial to choose as the first featured memorial for London Remembers, in February 2004. Cavell was executed by the...
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