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,...
Corporation of London The Great Synagogue, Dukes Place, constituent of the United Synagogue stood on the site adjoining from 1690 and ser...
Robert Graves, 1895 - 1985, writer, was born here. English Heritage
Lord Denman, Lord Chief Justice of England, lived in this house 1816 - 1834, and his son, Rt. Hon. George Denman, a judge of the High Cou...
The school was formerly the Linden Lodge School for the Blind, which Shearing attended as a boy. The plaque is on a building far from the...
Unveiled by by Dr Helen Pankhurst, Sylvia's great granddaughter.
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