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Plaque

Overseas League

Inscription

{Inscribed on the stone below the casket:}
Vernon House was bought by The Overseas League in 1921 and is dedicated to the perpetual memory of those citizens of the British Empire who laid down their lives in the Great War and to the service of the ideal for which they died.

Site: Overseas League (1 memorial)

SW1, Park Place, Overseas House

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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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Overseas League

The Royal Over-Seas League was founded in 1910 by Sir Evelyn Wrench to foster...

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