{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.
SW1, Park Place, Overseas House
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Overseas League
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came a...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Overseas League
The Royal Over-Seas League was founded in 1910 by Sir Evelyn Wrench to foster...
London's roads were heavily congested, the railways stopped on the fringes of the West End so some way of linking the mainline stations: ...
This is probably the 'opening' stone for the hospital which was begun in 1907. At first we read Abraham's initials as J. C. but whilst r...
The plaque is at the side of the building, in Buttercross Lane.
The plot consists of 36 graves acquired by the London Fire Brigade Widows and Orphans Fund (founded in1882 by Massey Shaw, who, probably ...
This plaque is no longer in situ. Our picture is taken from 'London Plaques' by Derek Sumeray and John Sheppard, Shire Publications.
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