{The inscription on the front of the plinth has become illegible, all but:}
... who gave their lives in the wars
1914 – 1918
1939 – 1945
The Rotherhithe people were prescient or just lucky. The way they had worded the text for their WW1 memorial meant that all they had to do in incorporate WW2 was to add the dates and an 's' to 'war'.
SE16, St Marychurch Street, St Mary the Virgin Church
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Rotherhithe war memorial
Tower Hamlets local list gives: "The memorial which is inscribed TO OUR GLORIOUS DEAD, 1914 1918 was unveiled in 1922 by the Suffraga...
Our photo shows the relief at the front representing the military operations. The relief on the back shows civilian workers distributing ...
The Belcher plaque is on the stone in the foreground of our photo, and the St Mark's cairn and WW2 memorials behind it.
A TfL document describes this as: "a Portland stone monument by Lucas, Lancaster and Lodge." We'd guess the 3Ls include the architect and...
"...and of whom those whose names ..." - we just don't write English like that any more, thank heavens.
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