Erection date: 2017
PC Alfred Smith, 1880 - 1917, was killed at this site saving factory workers during a WW1 air raid, 13 June 1917.
London Borough of Islington - Islington People's Plaque
EC1, Central Street, 43-45
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
PC Alfred Smith plaque
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came a...
From Islington Tribune: "PC Smith heard the German Gotha G.V aircraft approac...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
PC Alfred Smith plaque
The Islington Book of Remembrance is an impressive undertaking: the database ...
After we'd posted this our colleague Andrew Behan added some biographical details for the two men.
See Ellen and William Craft - blue plaque for the other plaque in this road.
We normally rotate our memorial pictures as necessary to make sure the statues are standing upright and the plaques can be read without f...
Linda and Paul met when they both attended a Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames gig here.
English Heritage Sir Robert Mayer, 1879 - 1985, philanthropist and patron of music lived here, in flat no. 31.
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