Remembrance
The original furore caused by his very public re-burial led to over 7 million of the Empire's children donating to his fund. Amongst other causes the Jack Cornwell Ward for disabled sailors was inaugurated at The Star & Garter Hospital, Richmond. Sir Robert Baden-Powell, leader of the Scout movement, created a Cornwell Medal. The Cornwell Scout Badge, struck in his honour, is awarded by Scouting organizations throughout the Commonwealth. It is awarded to youth members in respect of pre-eminently high character and devotion to duty, together with great courage and endurance. Camp Cornwell, established in 1925 as the headquarters for Western Australian Sea Scouts is situated at Pelican Point on the Swan River near Perth. A Jack Cornwell Street and a block of council flats nearby called John Cornwell VC House were named in his honour in Manor Park, Newham in the Little Ilford area (London E12), and there is also a pub on that road named The Victoria Cross to commemorate his achievement of the medal. Mount Cornwell in the Kananaskis Range of the Canadian Rockies was named in his honour in 1918. A group of memorial cottages in Hornchurch, Essex bear his name. The 5.5-inch gun on which he served is still displayed in the Imperial War Museum, London. In 2006 it was announced that Jack Cornwell VC would feature in a series of Royal Mail postage stamps marking the 150th anniversary of the Victoria Cross.
Jack Cornwell is also remembered by Sea Cadets, Army Cadets and Air Cadets who all have a unit based in the UKs first and only Tri Service Cadet building named 'The Cornwell VC Cadet Centre' on Vicarage Lane in East Ham. Newham (Cornwell VC) Sea Cadets have been honoured with 'J T Cornwell VC' on their cap ribbon (Cap Tally) instead of the customary TS (training ship). They are the only Sea Cadet Unit in the UK to have this honour. Since 2003, the Cadets have been planning to commemorate him by renaming an east London school in Leyton after him. In Cornwell's time the school was known as Farmer Road School; it is currently named George Mitchell School after another former pupil, George Allan Mitchell, who won a VC in Italy during World War II. Cornwell Close, on Grimsby's Nunsthorpe Estate and Cornwell Court in Haslemere Road, Portsmouth are named after him.
He is also remembered by Royal Navy Combined Cadet Force divisions, such as the RN CCF section at Whitgift School, Croydon, which is named the "Cornwell" division in his honour.
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