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Plaque

Covent Garden workers - wartime casualties

Erection date: 8/6/2011

Inscription

When you go home tell them of us and say
'For your tomorrow we gave our today'

To the memory of those who worked at Covent Garden Market and gave their lives in the great war (1914 - 1918) and the second world war (1939 - 1945).

Site: Covent Garden workers - wartime casualties (1 memorial)

WC2, Covent Garden, Central Avenue

In our photo the plaque can be seen on one of the paving stones behind the solo pedestrian.

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of plaquesoflondon.co.uk

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This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Covent Garden workers - wartime casualties

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World War 1

We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came a...

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World War 2

Sorry, we've done no research on WW2, it's just too big a subject. But do vis...

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This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Covent Garden workers - wartime casualties

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John Maxwell Edmonds

Poet and classical scholar.  Born Gloucestershire.  Died Cambridge.  In 1918-...

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