This memorial to the soldiers of the parish that died in WWI, stood in the grounds of St Johns Church North Woolwich. St Johns opened in 1872 as a mission of St Marks, Victoria Docks. A separate parish was formed in 1877. Prior to the creation of the London Borough of Newham in 1965, part of the parish, including the church, was situated in the Metropolitan Borough of Woolwich. Therefore all marriages solemnised at the church and some births and deaths in the parish were within the registration district of Woolwich. The parish registers were headed ' The parish of St John the Evangelist North Woolwich in the Counties of Essex and Kent'. The church was destroyed by fire during an air raid on 7th September 1940, and services were subsequently held in the former infants school, Pier Road. A new church on a different site, was consecrated on 28th October 1968. This photo taken on the derelict grounds some time after the church was destroyed, shows one side of the Memorial (photo 1 shows the full height of the memorial but the names are not as clear). We have no record of what happened to the memorial when the area was redeveloped in the 1960s. 

We would welcome any information on other names on the memorial or the location of the memorial.