Erection date: /5/2015
{Below an image of a Victoria Cross medal:}
Private John Lynn, Lancashire Fusiliers, 2nd May 1915
The plaque is on the ground near the Lewisham war memorial.
SE13, Lewisham High Street
The 6 VC plaques are laid into the ground in front of the monument.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Private John Lynn VC
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came a...
A line infantry regiment of the British Army. It had many different titles th...
Soldier. Born in Forest Hill, London. On 2nd May, 1915 near Ypres, the enemy ...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Private John Lynn VC
A department of the government of the UK. From Victoria Cross commemorative p...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Private John Lynn VC
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The Lewisham War Memorials website says that the inscription on the main memo...
2007 and this building will not exist much longer so we were glad to find a memorial. The building is looking very sad but renovation cou...
"God created man to be immortal" is from the Wisdom of Solomon 2:23.
Sir John Summerson, 1904 - 1992, architectural historian lived here from 1949 until his death. English HeritageÂ
The poem is part of ‘Riddles’, R.F.C. by John Drinkwater, 1918.
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