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Sign: London - Commemorative plaque for the martyrs of railway workers in World Wars


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32 London Bridge St, London SE1 9SG, UK
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On the sign:
IN HONOUR OF 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"

[The names of the martyrs in the war]

TO THE MEMORY OF
THE SIX HUNDRED AND TWENTY SIX MEN OF THE SOUTHERN RAILWAY WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE 1939-1945 WAR
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The sign at the "London Bridge" train station commemorates the fallen railway workers in World War I (another plaque at the bottom of the sign refers to World War II)

The sign was placed in 1921

The monument was photographed on the same day Click for a larger image

At the bottom of the monument is the inscription: There But Not There - an organization founded on the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War with the aim of perpetuating the memory of the soldiers and those who fell in this war.
The figure of the soldier with the weapon, placed on both sides of the monument, and also at the bottom are identified with the organization
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