Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Southwark
- Town
- Southwark
- County
- Greater London
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918), Second World War (1939-1945)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 5 October 1921
Attended by: Charles Colin Macrae - Dedicated
Date: 5 October 1921
Attended by: Rev J B Haldane MA - Show More (1)
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 12575
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Current location
London Bridge Station main groundfloor concourse
St Thomas Street
Southwark
Southwark
Greater London
SE1 2HL
England
OS Grid Ref: TQ 33019 80005
Denomination: Undefined
- Previous locations
- On a pillar in the central concourse next to W H Smith.
London Bridge Railway Station
Station Approach
London Bridge
Southwark
Greater London
SE1 9SP
England
OS Grid Ref: TQ 320 790
Denomination: Undefined
- On a pillar in the central concourse next to W H Smith.
- 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
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 531
Served and returned: 0
Died: 531
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Surname, initials, decorations
Order of information: Undefined - Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 0
Served and returned: 0
Died: 0
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Undefined
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Plaque
Measurements: height 3000mm, width 1000mm
Materials: Bronze - Frame
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone
- Plaque
- 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
- The London Brighton and South Coast Railway Co.
- WMO ID: 175946
- Condition: Good [last updated on 17-10-2018]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- 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
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- Public Monuments and Sculpture Association SK125/DW
- Railway Gazette 7 October 1921 p.547
- The Railway Magazine v.49 p.359 (19210
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