Memorial King's Cross Station

This memorial, originally dedicated in 1920, commemorate the 937 men of the Great Northern Railway who lost their lives in The Great War.

"This war memorial at King's Cross was first erected in 1920 by the Great Northern Railway, listing those employees who gave their lives in the Great War. After the Second World War, it was also dedicated to the employees of the London and North Eastern Railway who fell in that conflict. Following relocation in 1973, only the eleven original name panels remained. these marble tablets were restored and reinstated here in 2013, supported in new steel columns.
The spacing and heights of the columns and their plinths echo John Singer Sargent's 1919 painting 'Gassed', an outline of which is shown above. This monumental canvas , part of the Imperial War Museum collection, depicts eleven soldiers guiding each other across a battlefield following a gas attack.
This memorial, standing at the end of the railway worked by the men named here, honours all who fought and fell in the two wars."

"To the immortal memory of the men of the Great Northern Railway who gave their lives in the Great War 1914-19
1939-45
To the immortal memory of the men of the London and North Eastern Railway who gave their lives in Second World war."

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Source

• Text: Sharky Ward
• Photos: Anthony (Sharky) Ward