Camberwell - WW1

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Reference WMO/111160

Address:

Camberwell Old Cemetery

Forest Hill Road

East Dulwich

Southwark

London

SE22 0SQ

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Composite
Materials:
  • Stone Limestone
  • Stone Portland stone
Lettering: Incised
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
About the memorial: A square limestone obelisk with urn on top. A wreath of oak leaves, encircling the words 'Our Glorious Dead' is on the upper front of the obelisk. The coats of arms of the three services are below this and the borough coat of arms is lower down. Between these may well have been names at one time, now illegible. Two Portland stone walls behind bearing names.
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ON CENOTAPH: OUR/ GLORIOUS/ DEAD/ THIS CENOTAPH WAS/ ERECTED BY SUBSCRIBERS/ TO THE WAR MEMORIAL/ OF THE BOROUGH OF/ CAMBERWELL AS A/ TRIBUTE TO ITS SONS/ WHOSE BODIES ARE REST/ ING IN THE CEMETERY AND/ THROUGHOUT THE WORLD./ AT THE CALL OF/ KING AND COUNTRY/ THEY LEFT EVERYTHING/ THAT WAS DEAR TO THEM,/ ENDURED HARDNESS/ FACED DANGER AND/ FINALLY PASSED OUT OF/ SIGHT OF MEN BY THE/ PATH OF DUTY AND/ SELF SACRIFICE./ THEY DIED THAT/ WE MIGHT LIVE IN FREEDOM/ AND AT THE LAST MUSTER/ THEY SHALL STAND BE/ FORE THE THRONE AN/ EXCEEDINGLY GREAT ARMY/ 1914 - 1918/ THEY PASSED BUT THEY/ COULD NOT PASS AWAY WALL BEHIND: (NAMES) WALL BEHIND: ON THE WALL TO THE EAST OF THIS PANEL/ ARE RECORDED THE NAMES OF THOSE/ SAILORS AND SOLDIERS WHO ARE BURIED/ IN THIS ENCLOSED SPACE AND ON THE WALL/ TO THE WEST ARE THE NAMES OF THOSE/ BURIED IN THE OTHER PARTS OF THIS CEMETERY

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