Erection date: 31/7/2017
{Beneath an image of a Victoria Cross medal:}
Brigadier General Clifford Coffin Royal Engineers 31st July 1917.
The plaque is on the ground near the Lewisham war memorial.
SE13, Lewisham High Street
The 6 VC plaques are laid into the ground in front of the monument.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Clifford Coffin VC
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came a...
Born in Blackheath. On 31st July 1917, he was 47 years old and a temporary br...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Clifford Coffin VC
A department of the government of the UK. From Victoria Cross commemorative p...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Clifford Coffin VC
This website gives the name of the recipients of the Victoria Cross from Lewi...
The Lewisham War Memorials website says that the inscription on the main memo...
The unveiling image (© TfL from the London Transport Museum collection) is captioned "b/w lantern slide, Unveiling ceremony for a war mem...
The Elephant and Castle pub was at the corner of Wick Road and Victoria Park Road.
From Michael Rank: "Dorset Street was renamed Dove Road (Dove Bros builders named on the plaque) in 1935."
This building was the town hall for Metropolitan Borough of Greenwich, 1900 - 1939.
Greater London Council William Richard Lethaby, 1857 - 1931, architect, lived here, 1880 - 1891.
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