A ceramic tile sign at The Watts Memorial to Heroic Self-Sacrifice in Postman’s Park , London, EC1

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The Watts Memorial to Heroic Self Sacrifice in Postman's Park, London, contains fifty-four memorial tablets commemorating sixty-two individuals, men, women and children, each of whom lost their life while attempting to save another. The earliest case featured is that of Sarah Smith, a pantomime artist who died in 1863 and the latest is Leigh Pitt who drowned in 2007. The youngest individual commemorated is eight-year-old Henry Bristow; the oldest, sixty-one-year-old Daniel Pemberton.

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Size: 5472px × 3648px
Location: Postman's Park, King Edward St, London EC1
Photo credit: © Steve Tulley / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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