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Photographer: Michael Herrick
Taken: August 15, 2018
Caption: Northeastern Railway War Memorial
Additional Description: This memorial was designed in 1921 by the renowned English architect, Sir Edwin Lutyens, and built in 1923. It commemorates the 2,236 employees of the North Eastern Railway who were killed in the 1914 - 1918 war.
The additional memorial, which commemorates the 551 fallen in the 1939- 1945 war, was unveiled in 1984, following an appeal launched on the 60th anniversary of the original unveiling.
The names of all the fallen are recorded in a book of remembrance which can be inspected, during normal office hours, at the National Railway Museum.
Submitted: October 24, 2018, by Michael Herrick of Southbury, Connecticut.
Database Locator Identification Number: p451013
File Size: 0.492 Megabytes

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