Event    From 1942  To 1942

Operation Torch

Categories: Armed Forces

Countries: Africa

The allied campaign in WW2 for the liberation of North Africa

This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Operation Torch

Commemorated ati

Operation Torch & Operation Overlord

Norfolk House In this building, 24 June 1942 - 8 November 1942, general of t...

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R. W. Grant

R. W. Grant

Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.

Person, Armed Forces

War served, WW1
1 memorial
G. H. Pearce

G. H. Pearce

Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.

Person, Armed Forces

War served, WW1
1 memorial
Lieutenant Charles Campbell Wood

Lieutenant Charles Campbell Wood

Hero. R.A.F (South African Artillery). On 27 December 1919 he dived into the Thames from the upstream footway of Hammersmith Bridge and saved a drowning woman. He contracted tetanus as a consequenc...

Person, Armed Forces, Tragedy, South Africa

1 memorial
3rd Battalion (Royal Fusiliers)

3rd Battalion (Royal Fusiliers)

London unit which served in WW1.

Group, Armed Forces

1 memorial
Private John Lynn, VC

Private John Lynn, VC

Soldier. Born in Forest Hill, London. On 2nd May, 1915 near Ypres, the enemy was advancing behind a wave of poison gas. In spite of being almost overcome by the fumes, he turned his machine-gun aga...

Person, Armed Forces, Belgium

1 memorial