Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Allegory (eg: Victory)
- District
- Bromley
- Town
- Orpington
- County
- Greater London
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918), Second World War (1939-1945)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 21st July 1922
Attended by: MAJ-GENERAL F MAURICE CB - Unveiled
Date: C1949
Attended by: FM Sir Claude Auchinleck GCB GCIE CSI DSO OBE - Show More (1)
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 11060
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Current location
In the Main Hall
St Olave's Grammar School
Goddington Lane
Orpington
Bromley
Greater London
BR6 9SH
England
OS Grid Ref: TQ 46585 65242
Denomination: Undefined
- Previous locations
- ST OLAVE'S SCHOOL
Tooley St
Southwark
Southwark
Greater London
SE1
England
OS Grid Ref: TQ 330 790
Denomination: Undefined
- ST OLAVE'S SCHOOL
- Description
- BRONZE FIGURE OF ST OLAF PLACED AGAINST CROSS SHAPED STONE BACKBOARD WHICH IS IN TURN MOUNTED ONTO A BLACK STONE BACKBOARD. NAMES PANELS TO THE LEFT, RIGHT AND BASE OF THE FIGURE. BRONZE FIGURE DEPICTS ST OLAF STANDING WITH A SPEAR IN HIS HANDS
- Inscription
- CENTRE SECTION: OLAF TO BEAR ALONG OLAF TO RIGHT A WRONG TILL ALL OUR FIGHT BE FOUGHT/ TRUE LOVE BY DEATH/ TRUE LOVE BY LIFE IS TRIED/ LIVE THOU FOR ENGLAND/ WE FOR ENGLAND DIED/ 1914 1919 OTHER SECTIONS: (NAMES)
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Akerman, R P
Almond, J E
Athow, W
Baker, A G
Baker, H W
Barton, E
Beecroft, W H
Belcher, D C
Bennett, F B
Benson, G E
See details for all 192 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 192
Served and returned: 0
Died: 192
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname,additional,decorations
Order of information: surname,decorations,additional - Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 96
Served and returned: 0
Died: 96
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Figure
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Bronze - Cross
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Marble
- Figure
- Listing information
- This memorial is not currently listed. Find out how to nominate this memorial for inclusion on the National Heritage List for England
- More about listing and the protection of historic places can be found on the Historic England website
- Condition
- History
- 1949 WW2 additions by Gilbert Bayes.
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- Yes
Purpose: ANNUAL PRIZE & TRAVEL - Reference
- RASON, PAUL, BROMLEY WAR MEMORIALS VOLUME FIVE (Bromley, LONDON BOROUGH OF BROMLEY, November 1999), p. 86-8.
- Louise Irvine and Paul Atterbury, Gilbert Bayes: Sculptor 1872-1953 (Yeovil, Somerset: Richard Dennis Publications, 1998), p.183.
- South London Press, 28 July 1922, p.6.
- KERNOT, C F, BRITISH PUBLIC SCHOOLS WAR MEMORIALS (London: ROBERTS AND NEWTON, 1927), pp. 226-7.
- Caroline Sherlock, Sir William Reynolds-Stephens: A Life's Work - Painter, Craftsman, Designer and Sculptor 1862-1943 (London: Caroline Sherlock 2002), pp. 170-1, 180.
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