Remembered: Memorial tablet in East Greenwich Pleasaunce
Chevening Road, Greenwich
The memorial tablet, on the western wall of East Greenwich Pleasaunce, is dedicated to the memory of 3,000 pensioners of the Royal Hospital, whose remains now lie opposite the tablet in the Pleasaunce.
Their remains were re-interred in 1875 when the original burial site, Goddard's Garden, in central Greenwich, was subject to disruption when the Greenwich railway was extended to the East Kent coast.
Dedication to pensioners
White markers on the grass mark the area where the bodies lie.
The dedication reads:
'Opposite this tablet lie interred the remains of about three thousand men. Formerly pensioners of the Royal Hospital (removed from the Infirmary Burying Ground in 1875). They served their country in the wars that established the naval supremacy of England and died the honoured recipients of her gratitude.'
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