John 15 - King George Hospital War Memorial - Waterloo Road. London, UK
N 51° 30.273 W 000° 06.745
30U E 700396 N 5709888
This Great War memorial is to the memory of the patients that died in King George Hospital that had been set-up in HM Stationery Office in Stamford Street. The biblical text, from John 15, is inscribed around the top of the plinth.
Waymark Code: WMNA89
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 01/30/2015
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The Calvary memorial stands close to the west corner of St John the Evangelist church. A bronze plaque on the front of the memorial tells us:
Erected by the nursing staff
in honour of the patients who died
in the King George Hospital
HM Stationery Office Stamford Street
used as a military hospital during the war
On the front of the plinth is inscribed:
In memory of those
who have given their
lives for their country
The names of those
who died in the
King George Hospital
are inscribed on a
parchment roll placed
with the church records
The names of those who
were parishioners of
St John’s Church are
inscribed on the three
remaining panels of
this memorial
There 17 names on each of the three remaining sides.
Around the top of these inscriptions is carved, in two lines of text on all faces of the memorial:
Top line:
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
Bottom line:
Eternal rest grant to them O Lord and may perpetual light shine upon them.
The Bible Hub website contains the verse in the King James Bible that reads:
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you. Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you. These things I command you, that ye love one another.
The memorial is listed on the Imperial War Museum database as entry 18004.