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
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Robert John Baggott
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1. Robert John Baggott was born on 10 April 1873, the second of the four children of Robert Henry Lancaster Ba...
War served, WW1
1 memorial
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
T. R. Endersby
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
War served, WW1
1 memorial
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
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North South Route in Haringey
Alan Stanton, suitably impressed with this important plaque, informs that the North South route is now called Watermead Way. Somewhere there must be a plaque commemorating that name change. Please ...
1 memorial
Cadet Edward Sylvester Blake
Edward Sylvester Blake was born on 31 December 1896 in Wilnecote, Warwickshire, the youngest of the three children of the Reverend James Edward Huxley Blake (1863-1933) and Beatrice Harriet Blake n...
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
East End Maternity Hospital
The splendid Lost Hospitals of London gives a full history. In summary: Opened as the Mothers' Lying-In Home in Glamis Road, Shadwell. 1889 moved to number 396 Commercial Road and by WW1 it had ex...
2 memorials
Henry Benjamin Hanbury Beaufoy
Vinegar factory owner, philanthropist and politician. MP for Hackney. Born Switzerland. The family's brewery (first gin and then vinegar) was at Cuper's Gardens, Lambeth - demolished when Waterloo ...
Person, Food & Drink, Philanthropy, Politics & Administration, Switzerland
1 memorial
Christ Church Spitalfields - fire
British History On-line puts the blame squarely on the "negligence of the steeple-keeper". There you can see the exact cost of the repairs to each element destroyed by the fire and the name of the ...
1 memorial
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