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...
Other Subjects
E. A. Lawrence
Resident of the Central Ward, Hendon who served and died in WW1.
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Private William George Field
William George Field was born c.1884 the son of George and Mary Field, his birth being registered in the 1st quarter of 1884 in the Camberwell Registration District, Surrey (now Greater London). He...
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Lieutenant Colonel William R. Dunn
Lieutenant Colonel William R. Dunn was born on 16 November 1916 in Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota, USA. Our Picture Source gives a résumé of the life of this aviator. In 1947 he married Ev...
War served, WW2
1 memorial
Victualling Yard, Deptford
An information board “Docklands Heritage – Deptford River Walk” gives a good introduction to the area so we have transcribed it: "Alongside the Dockyard a Navy victualling and supply centre grew u...
2 memorials
Private Farquar Shaw
The Highland regiment, the Black Watch, had been marched down from Scotland to Finchley where, hearing rumours that they were to be sent to fight in America, about 100 soldiers went absent without ...
1 memorial
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John Wesley's house
Wesley built the chapel first, 1778, and then two houses, one either side, one for his own use and one for visiting preachers and their hangers-on. Both designed by George Dance the younger who als...
1 memorial
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
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