Major Allan H Beckett MBE RE (1914 - 2005) lived here (1919 - 1939). His engineering designs made the Mulberry Harbour and the D-Day landings of 1944 possible.
London Borough of Newham - Heritage Project
E6, Montpelier Gardens, 93
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This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Major Allan Beckett
The landings, also known as Operation Neptune, were the landing operations in...
Civil engineer. Born Allan Harry Beckett in East Ham. He designed the 'whale'...
Temporary portable harbours developed by the United Kingdom in WW2 for the ra...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Major Allan Beckett
West Ham was merged with parts of Barking and Woolwich to form the London Bor...
We think this may have been the sign giving the name of a ward at the hospital. It would fit in a fan-light above a door very nicely.
On this site stood Rockhills, the home of Sir Joseph Paxton MP, 1852 - 1865, Sir Henry Buckland, 1922 - 1956. The London Borough of Broml...
Ellen Terry, the great actress, lived here from 1904 to 1920.
The web page given on the plaque plots 900 British transport heritage sites on a map and provides information about each one.
{Below an image of a Victoria Cross medal:} Lieutenant Charles Pope, Australian Imperial Force (Western Australia), 15th April 1917.
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