SW1, Victoria Embankment, Victoria Embankment Gardens - Whitehall section
The building behind is the former Air Ministry. We thank Jamie Davis for finding this link to the British Pathe news film of the unveiling. Laid into the platform are four bronze badges, anti-clockwise: RAF, RSF, Met Police, WAFF. They are rather fine so we have treated each one as a memorial.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Trenchard - RAF
Formed 1st April 1918 at Hotel Cecil, 80 the Strand where it had its first he...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Trenchard - RAF
2024: a Jewish Heritage Trail in Islington was launched.
This is an impressive memorial but many people find it over-sentimental. Like most war memorials it insists we remember the fallen but in...
This plaque was erected between 2015 and 2018. We think this coincided with the planting of a tree (just outside our photo, to the right)...
Donated in memory, Israel Renson, 1906 - 1986, founder member of Victoria Park Society.
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