Erection date: 29/8/2018
{Below an image of a Victoria Cross medal:}
Lieutenant Cecil Sewell, Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment, 29th August 1918.
SE10, Crooms Hill
The plaque is on the pavement immediately below the 'Gloucester Circus' sign. In our photo the middle bollard is crossing it.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Cecil Sewell VC
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Soldier. Born Cecil Harold Sewell in Greenwich. On 29th August 1918 at Fremic...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Cecil Sewell VC
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Annie Besant, 1847 - 1933, social reformer, lived here in 1874. London County Council
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The wealthy Frederic Horniman had built up a large collection of art, handcrafts & natural history at his home on this site. In 1888 ...
Apart from the actual names the two plaques are the same. Our photo shows the one on the left.
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