London Society of East Anglians War Memorial, Liverpool Street Station

London Society of East Anglians war memorial, unveiled in July 1920 on the façade of the Liverpool Street Station offices of the Great Eastern Railway Company and repositioned adjacent to the Great Eastern Railway memorial on the upper concourse as part of the station remodelling in the 1990s.

MATERIALS: black granite backing with carved Portland stone tablet.

DESCRIPTION: the memorial is affixed to the north face of the Great Eastern Hotel at the upper concourse level of the station. The memorial takes the form of an ornate classical tablet with a central oval medallion carrying a carved inscription that records: ‘THIS MEMORIAL/ TO THE MEN OF/ NORFOLK, SUFFOLK, ESSEX/ AND CAMBRIDGESHIRE/ WHO FELL/ IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914-1919/ IS ERECTED BY/ THE LONDON SOCIETY/ OF/ EAST ANGLIANS’. The tablet is flanked by laurel wreaths with a classical female head and the arms of the four counties above, all picked out in colour and set into a broken pediment with the flag of the Society at the apex.