{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...
The Islington Tribune tells the story of the landlady in the early 1990s, Mary Watson, drilling the holes and erecting the plaque to give...
The nice lady in the shop told us that it is a 2 metre square white marble well head with 16th century graffiti. It's under the floor and...
Lost Treasures. Bycullah Athenaeum, 1883 - 1931. Originally located at Windmill Hill Enfield, this was a popular venue where plays and c...
These stones are laid in the ground to the right of the wreath that can be seen in our photograph. Left to right they are: Suez, Gang Sho...
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