Great Eastern Railway War Memorial, Liverpool Street Station

The Great Eastern Railway war memorial, unveiled in June 1922, is located at the upper concourse level of Liverpool Street Station, having been relocated there in the 1990s during station remodelling. Made of marble and bronze, the memorial is affixed to the west face of the Great Eastern Hotel. It features eleven marble panels inlaid with metal lettering that list over a thousand names. Flanking the memorial are fluted Roman Doric columns, each adorned with a spiralling carved wreath of bay leaves. These columns support a segmental broken pediment, which contains richly and deeply-carved ribbons and foliage in high relief.

At the center of the frieze is a tablet that reads: ‘TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF THOSE MEMBERS OF THE / GREAT EASTERN RAILWAY STAFF WHO, IN RESPONSE TO THE CALL OF THEIR / KING AND COUNTRY, SACRIFICED THEIR LIVES DURING THE GREAT WAR’. Below this are additional tablets with bronze plaques featuring profile relief portraits of Captain Charles Fryatt and Field Marshal Sir Henry William Bart. The central plaque, signed Van Golberdinge, commemorates Captain Fryatt with the inscription: ‘TO THE MEMORY OF CAPTAIN CHARLES FRYATT / + JULY 27TH 1916 + / FROM THE NEUTRAL ADMIRERS OF HIS BRAVE / CONDUCT AND HEROIC DEATH / THE NETHERLANDS SECTION OF THE LEAGUE / OF NEUTRAL STATES JULY 27TH 1917’. The plaque to the right honors Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson Bart with the text: ‘TO THE MEMORY OF / FIELD MARSHAL SIR HENRY WILSON BART / G.C.B. D.S.O. M.P. / WHOSE DEATH OCCURRED ON THURSDAY 22ND JUNE 1922 / WITHIN TWO HOURS OF HIS UNVEILING / THE ADJOINING MEMORIAL’. To the left of these smaller memorials, a passenger lift has been integrated, featuring marble cladding on its doors to match the memorial.