White plaque № 5390
Connection to This Location
# The Surrey Theatre's Final Service Standing at St George's Circus on the night of May 10th, 1941, seventeen firefighters—eleven from London's auxiliary brigades and five from Mitcham—faced an impossible choice as German bombs rained down on the Elephant and Castle: they descended into the basemen...
Location
St George's Circus, Elephant & Castle SE1
Inscription
In memory of eleven London Auxiliary Firemen, a Sub Officer of the London Fire Brigade and five Mitcham Auxiliary Firemen, killed by enemy action while relaying water from the basement of the demolished Surrey Theatre, which stood on this site and was then in use as an emergency water supply, to fires at the Elephant and Castle on the night of 10th/11th May 1941