We cannot identify the group that set up the memorial at St Martins. But we did find an academic paper titled: ’? The Evolution of National Ex-prisoner of War Associations in Britain after the Second World War, by Clare Makepeace, dated 2014. The abstract includes: "This literature shows how an early attempt to create one POW association for all who were captured failed. Associations subsequently founded for Far East ex-POWs successfully created an inclusive ‘fictive kinship group’ and their activities challenge recently established discourses that these prisoners were a ‘forgotten army’."
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Prisoners of War Association
Creations i
Prisoners of War - St. Martin in the Fields
Our photo shows one of the wood blocks and also a short piece of railway trac...
Other Subjects
1 memorial
Jack Mantle VC
Sailor. Born Jack Foreman Mantle in Wandsworth. He was a leading seaman on HMS Foylebank in Portland Harbour, and was in charge of a 2-pounder gun, known as a 'pom-pom'. On 4th July 1940, the ship...
War dead, WW2
1 memorial
Royal Naval Dockyard / Royal Victoria Dockyard
An information board “Docklands Heritage – Deptford River Walk” gives a good introduction to the area so we have transcribed it. “For at least five centuries Deptford’s history was bound up with t...
3 memorials
War dead, WW2
1 memorial
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
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