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Poplar and Stepney Sick Asylum
Town or City: Newham
County: Greater London
Country: England
WMT Reference Number: WM1933
Value of grant: £200.00
Type of memorial: Non-Freestanding
Type of work: Works to hard landscape
Grant scheme: Small Grants Scheme
Year: 2007
UKNIWM reference number: 12595
The Poplar and Stepney Sick Aslylum plaque was located in St Andrew's Hospital. It has been relocated to a new site in Newham General Hospital, in St Andrew's Wing. The plaque records the names of officers of the Asylum who lost their lives in the Great War. It is a constructed of marble, the centeral inscribed panel is white with the border in green.
The memorial has received multiple grants and the summary details of this record relate to the most recent grant.
In 2006 War Memorials Trust contributed £790 towards the first stage of works to remove the memorial, re-locate it to the new site, surface cleaning, the application of a protective coating to the memorial and the preparation of a conservation report.
In 2007 a second stage grant of £200 was made to assist with the costs of preparing the new site for the memorial to ensure it was protected and secure.
Both hospital sites are in London. St Andrew's Hospital was in Bromley-by-Bow, E3 and Newham General Hospital is in Palistow E13.
The inscriptions on the memorial read:
Poplar and Stepney Sick Asylum
To the memory of
the Officers of this institution who lost
their lives while serving with the Imperial
Forces during the Great War of 1914-1919.
Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori
Those recorded are:
Nellie Clarke Nurse Serbian Nursing Service
Herbert Charles Frost Lodge Porter Kings Royal Rifle Corps
Frank Hatley Labourer Middlesex Regiment
Helen Charlotte Hetterley Nurse Queen Alexandra's Nursing Service
Albert Evelyn Fairfax Kynaston Assistant Medical Officer H.M.S.Devonshire
William Spring Stoker East Surrey Regiment
Kate Rosina Sturt Nurse Queen Alexandra's Nursing Service
Further information
War Memorials Trust reference WM1933
UK National Inventory of War Memorials: 12595
If you have a concern about this memorial please contact the Trust on conservation@warmemorials.org
