Erection date: 1/6/2010
Robert Edward Ryder, VC, 1895 - 1978. Born here on the 17th December 1895. Awarded the Victoria Cross for "most conspicuous bravery and initiative during an attack" at the village of Thiepval during the Battle of the Somme in September 1916. Laid to rest in St Mary the Virgin Churchyard, Harefield.
Hillingdon, London
UB9, Breakspear Rd North, The Old Workhouse
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Robert Ryder VC
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came a...
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This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Robert Ryder VC
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Spender rented the ground floor and basement of this building, the upper floors of which were damaged in WW2.
We think this may have been the sign giving the name of a ward at the hospital. It would fit in a fan-light above a door very nicely.
The Freemasons commissioned this memorial to mark the 300th anniversary of The United Grand Lodge of England in 2017 and the centenary of...
