IN HONOUR OF FIVE THOUSAND SIX

HUNDRED AND THIRTY FIVE MEMBERS OF

THE STAFF OF THE LONDON BRIGHTON

AND SOUTH COAST RAILWAY Co WHO

JOINED THE FORCES OF THE CROWN

DURING THE WAR OF 1914-1918 AND OF

WHOM THOSE WHOSE NAMES APPEAR

BELOW GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR VICTORY

IN THAT GREAT STRUGGLE TO SECURE

THE LIBERTY OF THE WORLD

‘THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE’

This is the LB&SCR Memorial at London Victoria Station (the ‘Brighton side’); I published the SECR Memorial at Victoria yesterday.

In contrast to the SECR, the LB&SCR stresses that they ‘GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR VICTORY’ in the ‘GREAT STRUGGLE TO SECURE THE LIBERTY OF THE WORLD’.  There is no mention of God, King or Country.  This is the most idealistic characterisation of the Great War we have yet found.

Ref No 8.0 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.