Erection date: 7/11/2014
{Below an image of a Victoria Cross medal:}
Captain John Vallentin, the South Staffordshire Regiment, 7th November 1914.
SE1, Lambeth Road, St Mary's Gardens
The plaque is laid in the ground, to the right in our photo. The building which now houses the Garden Museum used to be St Mary at Lambeth church. These gardens, in the photo, were created in 1932 as a result of the building of a new Lambeth Bridge.
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John Vallentin VC
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came a...
Born as John Franks Vallentin in the parish of St Mary-at-Lambeth (the church...
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John Vallentin VC
A department of the government of the UK. From Victoria Cross commemorative p...
On this site the Imperial Society of Knights Bachelor was founded on 27th April 1908. 31 Essex Street.Â
English Heritage Cetshwayo, c.1832-1884, king of the Zulus, stayed here in 1882.
When Charles II was restored to the throne he issued Royal Warrant, dated 9 September 1661 which brought about the disinterment of the bo...
English Heritage Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, 1817 - 1898, Muslim reformer and scholar, lived here, 1869 - 1870.
John Thelwall, 1764 - 1834, political orator, writer and elocutionist, lived and worked here 1806 - 1813. English Heritage
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