Hidden Secrets of London's WWI Memorials

London is home to a large number of World War One memorials, many of which hide intriguing stories and details.

In this video, I'd like to share some of those secrets with you...

If there are any memorials with an interesting tale to tell which you can think of, and which isn't shown here, then please do feel free to note it down in the comments; it would be wonderful to put a catalogue together.

Chapters

00:00 Intro
00:36 Sarajevo; the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
04:12 The Anglo Belgian Memorial
06:38 Cleopatra's Needle bomb damage
06:59 The Cyprus Street Memorial, Bethnal Green
08:42 The Chelsea Roll of Honour
08:35 The Edith Cavell Memorial
11:20 The Machine Gun Corps Memorial
13:38 The Royal Artillery Memorial
15:52 Great Western Railway Memorial, Paddington
16:56 Euston Station War Memorial
17:30 Waterloo Station's Victory Arch
18:15 Liverpool Street & the assassination of Sir Henry Wilson
19:18 The former Broad Street terminal memorial
19:47 Park Lane Animals In War Memorial
20:13 The Animals War Memorial Dispensary, Kilburn
20:45 The Imperial Camel Corps Memorial
21:23 World War One Air Raid Plaques
23:36 The Dolphin Tavern's Zeppelin Clock
23:54 Camberwell Old Cemetery Air Raid Memorial
24:13 'No Person Was Injured' plaque, Queen Square
24:44 The Silvertown Explosion Memorial
25:55 The National Submarine Memorial
26:50 The Raid on Zeebrugge & Finsbury War Memorial
27:30 Albert Edward McKenzie
28:43 Twickenham War Memorial
29:35 Woodrow Wilson's visit plaque, Charing Cross
30:08 The Unknown Warrior
31:27 Outro

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Links for this video

The Imperial War Museum
https://www.iwm.org.uk/visits/iwm-london

London Remembers
https://www.londonremembers.com

The Dolphin Tavern
https://camra.org.uk/pubs/dolphin-tav...

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Credits:

Images:

Europe 1914 Map: David Rumsey

Belgian Refugees, 1914: rarehistoricalphotos.com

Edith Cavell inscription unveiling: Daily Mirror, 11th Sep 1924

Boy David miniature: Paul Farmer (Creative Commons)

Turtle Submarine (Flicker User: The Island Kings, Creative Commons)

Potters Bar Zeppelin Crash: pottersbarmuseum.org.uk

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Sound Effects (all via Freesound.org)

Pistol Shot: EvanBoyerman

Cannon Artillery (Aegersum)

Machine Gun: fennelliott

Military Exercise: Juskiddink

Marching Snare with reverb: Waldschrat1510

Marching-loop: stib

Explosion: AENHS

Incoming Artillery: bendodge

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Music

Black Mass (Brian Bolger)

Underwater Exploration (Godmode)

In Memory of Jean Talon (Mini Vandals)

Impossible Sacrifice (Asher Fulero)

Confliction & Catharsis (Asher Fulero)

Measured Paces by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...

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Arabian Nightfall (Doug Maxwell/Media Right Productions)

Boreal (Asher Fulero)

Circus Waltz - Silent Film Light by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...

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Wistful Harp (Andrew Huang)

A Night Alone (TrackTribe)

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