{On the low central panel:}
In loving memory of all connected with the church who died in the war, MCMXIV to MCMXIX. {i.e. 1914 to 1919.}
{On the 2 panels to left and right of the crucifixion scene there is a list of 85 names in, almost, alphabetical sequence. See the Subjects Commemorated for these names}
NW1, Munster Square, Parish Church of St. Mary Magdalene
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
St Mary's War Memorial
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came a...
{On the large stone plaque at the centre of this sombre memorial:} Major-General Lord Cheylesmore, GBE, KCMG, KCMO, Grenadier Guards. Bo...
Seamus Heaney unveiled the plaque and performed at a poetry reading later in Stratford Town Hall as part of the celebrations for the 150t...
"They died that we might live." is a quite common inscription on war memorials and sounds like a quotation but we cannot identify a source.
Probably erected no more than an year or so after the explosion, this monument used to be the south side of North Woolwich Road, nearly o...
As usual the active service death toll in WW1 is much greater than that in WW2. But we find it surprising that in WW2 more people died in...
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