Memorial to Heroic Self Sacrifice
Postman's Park
King Edward Street, City of London
London, January 2007
| Thomas Griffin fitters labourer April 12, 1899 In a boiler explosion at a Battersea sugar refinery was fatally scalded in returning to search for his mate | Walter Peart, driver and Harry Dean, fireman of the Windsor Express on July 18, 1898 Whilst being scalded and burnt sacrificed their lives in saving the train |
| Mary Rogers stewardess of the Stella Mar 30 1899 Self sacrificed by giving up her life belt and voluntarily going down in the sinking ship | Alice Ayres, daughter of a bricklayer's labourer who by intrepid conduct saved 3 children from a burning house in Union Street, Borough, at the cost of her own young life April 24, 1885 |
External links: List of tablets on the Memorial to Heroic Self Sacrifice (Wikipedia)
3 comments:
Wonderful dedication ! GOD Bless them !
Such courage, such tragic and painful deaths.
It looks a bit like a forlorn place though...
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