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
Sorry, we've done no research on WW2, it's just too big a subject. But do vis...
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,...
These plaques were originally located on the buildings of the Teddington Studios in Broom Road. The studios were closed and demolished in...
Sir Charles Vyner Brooke, 1874 - 1963, last Rajah of Sarawak, lived here. Greater London Council
Joseph Beck, 1828 - 1891, Chairman of the Clissold Park Preservation Committee who spearheaded the campaign (1886 - 8) to save Clissold P...
The plaque is on the back of the building, visible from a footpath.
The reports of the fund-raising campaign for this plaque named "historian Geoff Simmons" and it was said that the plaque would be "unveil...
Music critic, dog poet, photographic model and all round good egg.
Record album. The fifth to be released by Bob Marley and the Wailers on Island Records.
The Auxiliary Fire Service was formed in 1938 as part of the Civil Defence Service and was superseded in August 1941 by the National Fire Service. After the war the AFS was reformed alongside the C...
Potter. Née Gompertz in Vienna into a rich, intellectual family. 1938 she and her husband fled Nazism intending to go to the USA but Lucie, already more interested in her work than her husband, dec...
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