Hero. Born Berkshire. Royal Navy captain. Served in WW1 and WW2 and awarded CBE in 1943. This 'Have-a-go' hero single-handed attempted to stop 'smash-and-grab' thieves at a jeweller's shop in Birchen Lane in the City and died from injuries received. Blitzwalkers gives the full story. You'll be glad to hear that the robbers were caught and "banged to rights". Would we have made it in tabloid journalism?
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Captain Ralph Douglas Binney
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Captain Binney
This plaque was given by the Royal Navy in memory of Captain Ralph Douglas Bi...
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Geo. E. Clayton
Resident of the Central Ward, Hendon who served and died in WW1.
War dead, WW1
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10th (Battersea) Battalion, Queen's (Royal West Surrey) Regiment
Founded by the mayor and borough of Battersea. They fought in France and Italy and later disbanded (probably in 1918).
1 memorial
War dead, WW2
1 memorial
Rear-Admiral, Sir Henry Hart, KCH
Naval officer. Born Sussex. Commissioner of Greenwich Hospital. See Indefatigable for more information, but one paragraph there is particularly relevant to Greenwich Hospital: "Following his reti...
1 memorial
1 memorial
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David Gestetner
Inventor and industrialist. Born in Csorna, Hungary. Worked in Vienna before emigrating to America. Returned to Vienna where he entered a partnership making equipment for hectographs (an early form...
1 memorial
Sir Walter Cope
Courtier of King James I. Probably born in Oxfordshire. Had Holland House built and died there.
1 memorial
Nicholas Lidstone
Nicholas Lidstone was born on 2 December 1849 in Dodbrooke, Devon, the third of the eleven children of Henry Grant Lidstone (1821-1892) and Mary Honor Lidstone née Sinkins (1824-1902). His birth wa...
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