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The deaths in 1918 may have been Spanish Flu which killed both soldiers and civilians.
Thank you.
My dad's grandfathers were from your current neck of the woods, and their names would have ended up one of these memorials had they not thankfully survived (one a driver in the RE, the other a Pvt. in the London Regiment). Both saw action from 1914-18.
possibly not an official memorial, and not quite in Bow, but the one that I will always remember was a list of Great War dead on the wall of a terraced house in Bethnal Green, apparently men from one street were often all put in the same regiment,and in this case none of them came back.

dg writes: Mace Street and Tagg Street, E2.
(no.6 in the pdf in the final paragraph)

After trench warfare became impossible (not enough time to dig as the front moved quickly) the deaths became a lot more frequent.

Also dying of wounds is going to be a factor for deaths - if some took years for some to die, then the lag from earlier years would hit.
One of the men who took part in the 1943 Dams Raid, Sgt Arthur William Buck, was born at 237 Abbott Street in Bromley by Bow on 30 November 1914. He was killed in September 1943 a few months later on another operation. Some reference books often mis-assign his birthplace as Bromley, Kent. I imagine that he must be recorded on a Tower Hamlets war memorial but I've never had the chance to check it out. I wrote about him here.
The reason some memorials list 1919 is to include those who were sent to fight in Russia in an attempt to thwart the Bolsheviks.
I live in a country which did not fight WWI, so no War Memorials.
To-day is St Martin's day the start of the Carnaval season, there will be drinking from 11:00 onwards.
There are countries that did fight in WWI and also start the carnival season with drinking and merriment from 11:00 onwards. This is the most surprising thing I discovered when living in Germany. After finding it hard to comprehend at first, I rationalised my thoughts to being satisfied that they, foremost of all countries, have internalised and taken on board the lessons learned.
Germany has The National Day of Mourning (Volkstrauertag) which is next Sunday
Quite right John DLC, my mother's grandfather - William Webster Dennison, Artificer 2nd Class - was killed 3rd July 1919 when HMS Fandango stuck a mine in the Dniva River. This action was part of the North Russian Expeditionary Force (or 'Whitehall's Folly') aiding the White Russians against the Bolsheviks in their Civil War. He died leaving his wife pregnant with his son, born November 1919.
Why on earth did someone decide to put that enormous brick wall onto the Bromley centre instead of using railings to match does on the other side ?
Lest we forget.

(And now I understand why the links I posted some days ago were disappeared).
Such a shame that some memorials have been allowed to become weathered and unreadable - you'd have thought that there would have been a campaign to clean them up for the 100th anniversary. So much for "Lest we Forget"
1918, 1919… And in UK law the War was deemed by George V to terminate in August 1921.

George VI opened the last great memorial to the missing of the First World War in 1938.
There’s the war memorial on the side of a terraced house in Cyprus Street E2 to the 26 men from the street who died in the First World War. Apparently the memorial was broken and discarded before being salvaged and fixed, much like the original plaque marking the Bethnal Green tube station disaster. On both occasions members of the local community stepped in to provide a longer lasting tribute.
I wonder whether the gas perpetually consumed by the Gas Light & Coke Co memorial is properly metered, and who pays for it in these days of privatisation.
It's your mention of the fact that the memorial at Tower Hamlets Cemetery is dedicated to the service men and women who gave their lives that leads me to pose the following question:
are there any records, to anyone's knowledge, which would show the death toll figures [for services personnel for WW1] by gender ???
It has to go without saying it's probably a small percentage, but - after reading various historical records of, say, field hospitals being struck by stray shells - I'm starting to become far from certain that it's as small as most people would suppose.

(As a kind of postscript, I was actually in a library today, which had a commemorative display of books about WW1. Although I didn't have time to take a look at it, I saw one of them had a title like 'Women Tommies: Women on the Frontline.' It would seem, perhaps, that the percentage could be considerably higher than one might ordinarily suppose.)
@Amber... yes - as noted in an earlier comment - the mention of "26 names" points to the memorial you refer to as being the one at Cyprus Street, E2.
It does not appear to be listed on the Tower Hamlets web-page.
Memorial plaques of this type seem to be rare (and all the more touching for it): the only other one like it that I've seen was in Camden, which lists nine names, on the wall of a house in College Lane.
@RogerW, I've only just seen your comment, thanks for identifying the location. It's some time since I saw the list of names on a wall, and I wouldn't be able to find it again, but the thought of a whole street losing most of its men seemed horrifying.
There are several memorials of a similar sort on various streets in the centre of St Albans. See for example, SPAB blog: that says they "are thought to be unique survivals. The Imperial War Museum knows of no others still in existence", but it sounds like the two mentioned above are the same kind of thing.










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