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    Memorial

    London Brighton and South Coast Railway and Southern Railway

    Memorial WWI & WWII

    Source: Copyright Mark Littler

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    Current Location

    Just inside, on the right, the St Thomas Street entrance by what was Stainer Street., London Bridge Station main groundfloor concourse, St Thomas Street, Southwark, Southwark, Greater London, SE1 9TH, England

    OS Grid Reference

    TQ 32843 80053

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    Type of Memorial
    Board / Plaque / Tablet
    WMR Reference Number
    12575
    Description
    Bronze coloured plaque with names of employees of the railway. Below is another small dedicatory plaque
    Inscription
    IN HONOUR OF THE FIVE THOUSAND SIX / HUNDRED AND THIRTY-FIVE MEMBERS OF / THE STAFF OF THE LONDON BRIGHTON / AND SOUTH COAST RAILWAY CO. WHO / JOINED THE FORCES OF THE CROWN / DURING THE WAR OF 1914 - 1918 AND OF / WHOM THOSE WHOSE NAMES APPEAR / BELOW GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR VICTORY / IN THAT GREAT STRUGGLE TO SECURE / THE LIBERTY OF THE WORLD. / "THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE" / (Names) / TO THE MEMORY OF / THE SIX HUNDRED AND TWENTY SIX / MEN OF THE SOUTHERN RAILWAY WHO / GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE 1939 - 1945 WAR
    War
    First World War (1914-1918)
    Number Commemorated
    531
    Died
    531
    Information shown
    Surname, initials, decorations
    War
    Second World War (1939-1945)
    Maintenance History
    Badly damaged by enemy action in 1940 and recast. Southern Railway plaque added post WW2. In storage when the redevelopment of the station was taking place. Now displayed in the main ground floor concorse

    Ceremonies

    Unveiled

    5 October 1921

    Charles Colin Macrae

    Dedicated

    5 October 1921

    Rev J B Haldane MA

    Previous Location(s)

    Just inside (on the right) at the St Thomas Street entrance at what was once Stainer Street. , London Bridge Railway Station, St Thomas Street, London , Southwark, Greater London, SE1 9TH, England

    OS Grid Reference

    TQ 32963 80053

    Year of move

    c 2006

    Reason for move

    Wall on which the plaque was sited was removed in connexion with improvement works at the station, and subsequently installed in it's current position.

    Components

    Plaque

    Height: 3000mm

    Width: 1000mm


    Made from: Bronze


    Condition: Good


    Frame

    Made from: Stone


    Condition: Lost


    • The Railway Magazine v.49 p.359 (19210
    • Public Monuments and Sculpture Association SK125/DW
    • Railway Gazette 7 October 1921 p.547