MEMORIAL TO HEROES.
Seven panels have been unveiled by the British Postmaster-General in the little memorial cloister at St. Botolhp's Aldersgate, and on them are tlio naiiws of three London policemen and four men of the East Ham sewerage works who gave their lives to save others. Many years ago Mr, G. F. Watts, the painter, designed and erected this cloister with its 144 panels, known as Postman's Park, because it is so near the General Post Office. He reflected that people who lose their lives doing brave things are soon forgotten, and he made this memorial so that at least a few of the bravo deeds of the heroes of civic life might be remembered. One of the new panels commmorates the policeman who lost his life in the terrible explosions at Silvertown in 1917. He rushed about here and there saving munition workers, though be must have known that the final explosion was yet to come.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20768, 10 January 1931, Page 3 (Supplement)
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