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.
See Musee de la Resistance for more information on this memorial (in French).
SW1, Carlton Gardens, 4
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Charles de Gaulle and the Free French
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Formed, in concept at least, on 18 June 1940 in de Gaulle's 'Appeal of 18 Jun...
Born Lille, France. Height 6 ft, 5 inches, nicknamed Le Grande Asperge. Presi...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Charles de Gaulle and the Free French
Replaced the LCC. The GLC was abolished, some say, because Mrs Thatcher could...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Charles de Gaulle and the Free French
{Left most double plaque - top:} LCC Lord Palmerston, 1784 - 1865, statesman,...
Jackie Free, British jazz trombonist. Born in Leytonstone, lived here between 1932 - 1954 "A fine trombone man" (Louis Armstrong 1956) Wa...
One thinks of people named on plaques as "Chairman" of this, that or the other, as being upstanding citizens. Check our page on Dr Patter...
Freddy Randall, 1921 - 1999, a trumpet-hero and true legend of British jazz, lived in this house. Waltham Forest Heritage
2022: Timothy Fox drew our attention to the fact that this building and the plaque have gone (demolished 2018). Yet another spreadsheet t...
In our photo, looking left to right, the bench is in the small church garden hidden behind the car; the Dearmer plaque is on the wall beh...
Rosalind Franklin, 1920-1958, pioneer of the study of molecular structures including DNA, lived here, 1951-1958. English Heritage
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