Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Avenue / Tree or grove
- District
- Hackney
- Town
- Stoke Newington
- County
- Greater London
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 15th April 1951
Attended by: ALDERMAN EDWARD NORVALL JP
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 11961
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Current location
WALL-MOUNTED PLAQUE
NEAR JUNCTION WITH ALBION ROAD
Lavell St
Stoke Newington
Hackney
Greater London
N16 9LS
England
OS Grid Ref: TQ 32877 85688
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- AVENUE OF THIRTEEN TREES WITH WALL PLAQUE. LAMINATED NAME PLATES ATTACHED TO EACH TREE.
- Inscription
- AIR TRAINING CORPS/ 269TH (STOKE NEWINGTON) SQUADRON/ THE THIRTEEN TREES GROWING IN THE VICINITY OF THIS TABLET/ WERE PLANTED BY THE SQUADRON AND ITS FRIENDS AS A LIVING/ MEMORIAL TO THE THIRTEEN FORMER CADETS OF THE UNIT/ WHO DIED FOR THEIR COUNTRY IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR/ THEIR NAMES ARE/ (NAMES)/ THIS TABLET WAS UNVEILED BY HIS WORSHIP THE MAYOR OF STOKE/ NEWINGTON (ALDERMAN EDWARD NOVALL JP) FOLLOWING/ THE COMMEMORATION OF THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY/ OF THE FORMATION OF THE UNIT/ DEATH HAS MANY NAMES - ONE IS LIFE ERIC MACKAY
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Burton, Ronald George
Dowling, Alan Albert
Eastlake, Eric Finbar
Every, Thomas Ashton
Goodwin, Kenneth Martin
Marks, Gilbert Leonard
Norris, Ronald Arthur
Owen, Kenneth William
Payne, Cyril Albert
Pearson, Douglas Millward
See details for all 13 names - Commemorations
- Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 13
Served and returned: 0
Died: 13
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname & forename
Order of information: alphabetically
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Components
- Plaque
Measurements: depth 1.5CM, height 35CM, width 60CM
Materials: Bronze
- 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
- History
- TREES REPLANTED. LAMINATED SIGNS REPLACE ORIGINAL INDIVIDUAL NAME PLATES.
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Sponsorship
- Corporate
- Responsibility
- 296 SQDN ATC/ BOROUGH OF HACKNEY
- Reference
- London Remembers: www.londonremembers.com/memorials/atc-296-stoke-newington-ww2
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