Location:
Brownhill Road Central School
Brownhill Road
Catford
School demolished in 1993, the memorial may have been lost.
Map: Memorials of Lewisham Map
Type: Tablet
Description:
Large bronze tablet on an oak base containing the names of one master and thirty-seven old boys who fell. Placed in a frame and fixed under the tablet was the name of Ernest Charles Grace whose name the headmaster had received after the commissioning of the plaque.
Inscription:
"To the glorious memory of a master and the boys of this school who gave their lives in the Great War, 1914 - 1919"
Ceremonies:
The memorial was dedicated by Canon R.P. Roseveare on Saturday June 11 1921. Mr. R. Jackson, L.C.C chairman of the managers presided.
Press: The Borough News, Wednesday, June 15 1921, The Kentish Mercury June 3 and June 17 1921
Names:
| Frank Andrews | Chas. Benj. Jennings | Horace Edward Roper |
| Owen William Apps | Herb. George Lambert | Leslie Victor Shinn |
| Henry Bussey | Wr. Richard Maybrook | Frank Sidnell |
| William Hedley Dean | Stanley Francis Moyce | Frank Ellis Smith |
| Victor Geo. Edmonds | Lewis Frank Stroud | |
| Charles Alfred Everett | Stan. Martin Rhoades | Leonard William Taylor |
| Frank Edward Forster | Norman R. Oliver | Percy Wm. Thurston |
| Sid. Vernon Goddard | Francis Perch | Arthur Watkins |
| Leslie Hamlet Gregg | Reg. Chirgwin Potter | John Herbert White |
| George Henry Harrison | Stanley Joseph Purcell | James Stuart Wilson |
| John James Hayward | Fred. Richardson | Louis Foster Brown (Master) |
| Claude Wm. Henderson | Wm Edward Roberts | Ernest Charles Grace |
| Ernest Wm. Howard | Harold Chas. Robertson |
| Placed in a frame and fixed under the tablet was the name of Ernest Charles Grace whose name the headmaster had received after the commissioning of the plaque. |
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