{On the upper section of the upright below the cross:}
A.M.D.O.
{On the main section of the upright below the cross:}
To the valiant men of the parish who fell in the war, 1914 - 1918.
The lettering is, unusually, made up of dots, pierced in the stone.
NW1, Eversholt Street, St Mary's, Somers Town
Eversholt Street used to be known as Seymour Street.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
St Mary's War Memorial
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came a...
The expression "our glorious dead" suggests that this memorial was raised to the dead in the armed forces only and not to any civilian dead.
The lowest element of this memorial ("Eton Manor will always....") projects from the wall and is somewhat reminiscent of a sarcophagus. W...
See the George Sparkes fountain in Chelsea for another manifestation of this design.
The design of this Portland stone clock tower was chosen through competition by a committee of the Royal Academy from a field of 80. The...
The quotation on the 1919 face comes from the Bible, Joshua 4:3, 6-7: "... and these stones shall be for a memorial unto the children of ...
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