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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This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Cecil Sewell VC
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By sheer chance we discovered and photographed this plaque on 4 May 2022, the day after it was unveiled.
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