Poplar & Stepney Rifles
Site of the Drill Hall (1860 - 1907) of 26th Middlesex Volunteers. Later part of 17th Battalion London Regiment (Poplar & Stepney Rifles) of whom 1,022 soldiers were killed in the Great War 1914 - 1918.
The History of Wapping Trust
Turk's Head Charity
E1, Glamis Road
has a good post on this area.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Poplar & Stepney Rifles
We can find no image of the Drill Hall but have found a "Drill Shed" on a 188...
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came a...
London unit which served in WW1 where it lost 1,022 soldiers. Â More informati...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Poplar & Stepney Rifles
Started in the early 1970s as Wapping Parents Action Group. Transformed into ...
From the Picture source website: "The Turk’s Head was bought from the Council...
{Beneath the London Docklands Development Corporation logo:} Rotherhithe Tunnel Airshaft. This listed structure was constructed between 1...
{Inscribed on the main stone plaque:} 1914 - 1918 In memory of the officers, warrant officers, non-commissioned officers and men of the...
The plaque is actually round the corner from Hermitage Street on the un-named slip road from Harrow Road, where the normal rules about pa...
Westminster's attitude to plaques on this building seems to be: when you've got something to commemorate why stop at one plaque when you ...
The ideograms are Japanese Kanji characters forming the word Heiwa which is one way of expressing 'peace' in Japanese.
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