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Plaque

Job Drain VC

Erection date: /8/2014

Inscription

{Beneath an image of a Victoria Cross medal:}
Driver Job Drain, Royal Field Artillery, 26th August 1914.

Site: Job Drain statue + VC plaque (2 memorials)

IG11, Broadway, Outside Broadway Theatre

At first sight one would think this statue was created shortly after WW1 rather than in 2009.

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

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This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Job Drain VC

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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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Job Drain

Soldier. Born Job Henry Charles Drain in Barking, Essex. In WW1 he was a driv...

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Job Drain VC

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Department for Communities and Local Government

A department of the government of the UK. From Victoria Cross commemorative p...

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Job Drain statue

Job Drain statue

{Plaque on pavement in front of the statue, beneath the Victoria Cross:} Driv...

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