Great Central Railway, Engineers Office employee killed in World War I.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
Great Central Railway, Engineers Office employee killed in World War I.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
L. Blanden
Great Central Railway Engineers Office Marylebone. In memory of L. Blanden H....
The bookseller and author who, in 1763, introduced Dr Samuel Johnson to James Boswell at his house in Russell Street. He took to bookselling after failing as an actor.
On this site lived Sir Herbert Tree, 1852-1917, actor manager.
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came along at which point it was renamed as World War One or the First World War. But the term was first used in print in 1920...
Awarded the VC for his heroism on 25 April 1915, age 36, while serving in the Lancashire Fusiliers. "[Despite] deadly fire from hidden machine guns and being severely wounded he continued to lead h...