Streatham War Memorial

Bronze figure of a hatless serviceman, head bowed and hands clasped on a reversed rifle propped on his boot. He appears to stand on a battlefield, replete with a discarded army jacket, steel helmet and gasmask. The statue stands upon a white tapering stone pedestal on a square base. Carved into the upper part of the pedestal are the words: TO / OUR GLORIOUS DEAD. Below are two identical bronze wreaths, the top inscribed ‘1914 – 1918’, the bottom ‘1939 – 1945’. On the pedestal’s bottom-most section is a bronze plaque installed in 2010 - it reads: IN HONOUR OF / THE MEN AND WOMEN OF STREATHAM / WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE SERVICE / OF THEIR COUNTRY IN TWO WORLD WARS / 1914 -1918 AND 1939-1945 / AND IN OTHER CONFLICTS / At the going down of the sun and in the morning / we will remember them / FROM THE PEOPLE OF STREATHAM 2010. The memorial stands on a small grass square bounded by very low iron railings with a short stone pillar at each corner.

This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Online. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 20 February 2017.