World War 1 Roll of Honour (plaque)

All Saints World War 1 Roll of Honour

After World War 1 every parish organised a War Memorial.

A memorial stained-glass window was installed in the old All Saints Church (on the corner of Cantwell Road and Ripon Road). Also a Roll of Honour (a memorial plaque) was installed in the church, naming the 80 men from the ‘church and parish’ of All Saints, Plumstead ‘who laid down their lives in the Great War’. A memorial was also erected in the churchyard.

The Roll of Honour was printed in the service sheet for the unveiling of the War Memorial Window on 27 March 1920.

When the church was bombed in 1944 the stained-glass window and churchyard memorial were destroyed. However the plaque was recovered. It was damaged but put into storage.

The plaque was recently re-discovered and All Saints decided to raise money to have the plaque restored and installed in the current All Saints church (built in 1956 on a site down the hill from the original church). A service of re-dedication of the plaque by the Bishop of Southwark was planned for the Saturday nearest to the centenary of the original dedication: Saturday, 28 March 2020. Unfortunately the coming of the coronavirus meant that that service had to be postponed.

The re-dedication is now planned to take place on Saturday, 27 March 2021, the 101st anniversary of the original dedication.

Paul Winslow, one of the current members of All Saints, has researched the people commemorated on the plaque in considerable detail and has shared these findings on-line.

He says, "This site brings together the information I've been able to find about the people commemorated on this plaque. It remains a work in progress!"

CLICK HERE TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THE PEOPLE WHO ARE COMMEMORATED ON THE ROLL OF HONOUR