Erection date: 20/9/2017
{Beneath a representation of the Victoria Cross medal:}
Sergeant William Burman, Rifle Brigade, 20th September 1917
Unveiled by the Mayor of Tower Hamlets and a Rifles contingent of ten.
E1, Arbour Square, Arbour Square Garden
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
William Burman VC
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came a...
Soldier. Born William Francis Burman. As a sergeant in the Rifle Brigade (Pri...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
William Burman VC
A department of the government of the UK. From Victoria Cross commemorative p...
Dr John Fry, 1922 - 1994, pioneering family doctor, world renowned researcher in primary care, & innovator in evidence based medicine...
Wollstonecraft attended this church from 1784.
The plaque is laid in the ground and can be seen in our photo in front of the unoccupied chair.
Paul Nash, 1889 - 1946, war artist World Wars I & II, lived and worked here.
Physician and cardiologist. Our picture source gives a biography of this man. He was born on 12 April 1853, the third of the seven children of Robert MacKenzie (1816-1898) and Jean Campbell MacKen...
This down at heel backwater to the east of the Tower of London, has an unexpectedly rich history. The area around it was generally known as Wellclose and in 1686 it became part of the Liberty of th...
As Prime Minister in September 1938, according to his policy of appeasement, Chamberlain signed the Munich Agreement with Hitler which appeared to avert war by sacrificing the Sudetenland. ('Peace ...
Actor. Born London. Was directed at the National Theatre by Laurence Olivier. He died, aged 93 years, on 5 November 2020 at his home in Buckinghamshire.
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