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
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came a...
In 2009 we were contacted by Alexander Ferguson Moran (Fergus), saying his gr...
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 ...
The plaque is in the pavement in front of the pillar box.
The gate piers with the urns, that can be seen in our photo, each have a plaque on the other, north facing, side. These are only visible ...
DL stands for Deputy Lieutenant (of the County of Buckinghamshire).
Joyce Grenfell, 1910 - 1979, entertainer and writer, lived here in flat no.8, 1957 - 1979. English Heritage
The "Queen's Head Inn", owned by the family of John Harvard, founder of Harvard University, formerly stood here. Historic Southwark
