TO THE IMMORTAL MEMORY

OF

THE 556 MEN OF THE SOUTH EASTERN AND CHATHAM RAILWAY

WHO FOUGHT AND DIED

FOR THEIR COUNTRY IN THE GREAT WAR.  1914 – 1918

LET THOSE WHO COME AFTER

SEE THAT THEIR NAMES BE NOT FORGOTTEN

This is the Memorial of the SECR at Victoria Station.  It lists the 556 dead in the Great War by their departments – Coaching, Engineers, Marine etc.

The Memorial notes that 5,222 men served and 556 died.

In addition that 626 men of the much larger Southern Railway died in the Second World War.

Ref No 7.0 in my list of WW1 War Memorials, looking at what the dedications tell us about how ordinary people felt about the War that had just ended.