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
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Robert Ryder VC
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This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Robert Ryder VC
The borough was formed in 1965 from the Municipal Borough of Uxbridge, Hayes ...
Lt-Cdr Roy S. Kerridge, 1903 - 1940, who died attempting to defuse a parachute mine on this site. London Borough of Islington
Walter de la Mare, 1873 - 1956, poet, lived here, 1940 - 1956. English Heritage
In 2009 Alan Patient reported that "the pub has been boarded up for many months and the plaque removed." 2013: The Victorian Society are...
Erection date is approximate. Laszlo lived here with his wife and five sons, and died here. In his garden studio here he painted the you...
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1806 - 1861, poet, lived in a house on this site, 1838 - 1846.
Emma lived in Greville's house on Paddington Green and it was here she met her future husband, Hamilton.
The UK's first self-contained indigenous reggae band. The original members (all from Jamaica) were session musicians backing various musicians. They emigrated to Britain and produced their first al...
This sculpture was first installed in 2003, just outside this station, in what is now named Hope Square, when it looked very different, c...
At first sight one would think this statue was created shortly after WW1 rather than in 2009.
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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