Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), Saturday 24 January 1931, page 4


MEMORIAL TO HEROES

Seven panels have been unveiled by the British Postmaster-General in the little memorial cloister at St. Botelho s Aldersgate, and on them, are the names of three London policemen and four men of the East Ham sewer-age works who gave their lives to save others.

Many years ago Mr. G. V. Watts, the painter, designed and elected this cloister with its 111 panels, known as Postman's Park, because it is so near the General Post Office. He reflected that people who lose their lives doing brave things are soon forgotten, and he made this memorial so that at least a few in the brave deeds of the heroes of civic life might be remembered.

One of the new panels commemorates the policeman who lost his life in the terrible explosions at Silvertown in Till". He rushed about here and there saving munition workers, though he must have known that the final explosion was not to come.