Erection date: 1/6/2010
Robert Edward Ryder, VC, 1895 - 1978. Born here on the 17th December 1895. Awarded the Victoria Cross for "most conspicuous bravery and initiative during an attack" at the village of Thiepval during the Battle of the Somme in September 1916. Laid to rest in St Mary the Virgin Churchyard, Harefield.
Hillingdon, London
UB9, Breakspear Rd North, The Old Workhouse
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Robert Ryder VC
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Robert Ryder VC
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The plaque is just inside the entrance to Olive Morris House.
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A recruitment consultant, killed in the Ladbroke Grove rail disaster, aged 61. Andrew Behan has kindly carried out further research: John D. B. Raisin was born on 26 August 1938, the son of Alec R...
Frank Charles Elliston-Erwood FSA, archaeologist & historian, 1883 - 1968, lived here 1912 - 1968. Woolwich Antiquarian Society
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Erected on the 200th anniversary of the publication of Paine's "Rights of Man", written while Paine lived at the Angel Inn which used to ...
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