Memorial

Charles de Gaulle and the Free French de Gaulle & Palmerston

Plaque: Charles de Gaulle and the Free French

Greater London Council
General Charles de Gaulle, President of the French National Committee set up the Headquarters of the Free French Forces here in 1940.

Site: de Gaulle & Palmerston (3 memorials)

SW1, Carlton Gardens, 4

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Subjects commemorated

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World War 2

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Charles de Gaulle

Born Lille, France. Height 6 ft, 5 inches, nicknamed Le Grande Asperge. Pre...

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Greater London Council

The GLC was abolished, some say, because Mrs Thatcher could not abide its lef...

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de Gaulle

In 1940, after briefly being in Mayfair and Victoria, de Gaulle moved here wi...

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Lord Palmerston - Carlton Gardens

{Left most double plaque - top:} LCC Lord Palmerston, 1784 - 1865, statesman,...

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