We cannot identify the group that set up the memorial at St Martins. But we did find an academic paper titled: For ‘ALL Who were Captured’? The Evolution of National Ex-prisoner of War Associations in Britain after the Second World War, by Clare Makepeace, dated 2014. The abstract includes: "This literature shows how an early attempt to create one POW association for all who were captured failed. Associations subsequently founded for Far East ex-POWs successfully created an inclusive ‘fictive kinship group’ and their activities challenge recently established discourses that these prisoners were a ‘forgotten army’."
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Prisoners of War Association
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Prisoners of War - St. Martin in the Fields
Our photo shows one of the wood blocks and also a short piece of railway trac...
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Bill Faust (Billy)
Died with Adam Meere in a fire in Bethnal Green, which started in the basement of a children's clothes shop, Sohan and Sons, and spread to the flat above. Operating out of Whitechapel Fire Station,...
2 memorials
1 memorial
War dead, WW2
1 memorial
G. F. Satchell
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
War served, WW1
1 memorial
Geoffrey Stewart
Killed in action in France, serving with the Coldstream Guards. Son of Sir Herbert Stewart. Andrew Behan found the photo and has researched this man: Captain Geoffrey Stewart was born on 28 Octobe...
1 memorial
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Thomas Hardy
Novelist and poet, best known for his novels set in rural 'Wessex' such as Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Far from the Madding Crowd. Born Upper Bockhampton, Dorset. Before turning to writing full-t...
3 memorials
World War 2
Sorry, we've done no research on WW2, it's just too big a subject. But do visit the picture source web site - it has a fascinating collection of maps. And we enjoyed these photos of current WW2 ev...
376 memorials
Montagu Pyke
In 1908 Pyke converted two shops at 164-166 Edgware Road into a cinema. This was a success and he created more, naming each one the Cinematograph Theatre. By 1910 he had 5 cinemas, each an independ...
1 memorial
The Triffids
Australian. Relocated to London in August 1984. We guess their name came from the novel "The Day of the Triffids".
1 memorial
Marquee Club
First opened on 19 April 1958 at 165 Oxford Street and then in 1964 moved to 90 Wardour Street, where it stayed until 1988. It was at 105-107 Charing Cross Road (a former cinema) from August 1988 -...
2 memorials
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