Awarded the VC for his heroism on 18 August 1919, age 34, while serving in the Royal Navy. "Commanding Coastal Motor Boat №31 he passed into Kronstadt Harbour under heavy machine gun fire, torpedoed the battleship Andrei Pervozvann, and escaped under heavy fire showing conspicuous gallantry and skill. (Kronstadt, Russia)". Freemason at: №2612, Navy Lodge.
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Claude Congreve Dobson, VC
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Freemason VCs - N6 - Dimmer, Dobson, Dorrell
John Henry Stephen Dimmer, 12 November 1914, Age 31, The King’s Royal Rifle C...
Other Subjects
Rifleman Albert Chapman
Albert Chapman was born on 26 September 1886 in Shepherds Bush, Middlesex, (now Greater London), one of the ten children of William Chapman and Elizabeth Chapman née Ginn. His birth was registered ...
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
J. Richards
Employed at the Holloway bus/tram garage - Pemberton Gardens. Served and was killed in WW1.
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Lieutenant Hugh Reginald Baldwin
Hugh Reginald Baldwin was born on 4 March 1898, the second of the three children of Edward Thomas Baldwin (1847-1937) and Emily Henry Louise Stoker (1866-1936). His birth was registered in the 1st ...
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
W. H. Brotherhood
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
War served, WW1
1 memorial
G. E. Webb
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
War served, WW1
1 memorial