Founded by the mayor and borough of Battersea. They fought in France and Italy and later disbanded (probably in 1918).
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of plaquesoflondon.co.uk
Founded by the mayor and borough of Battersea. They fought in France and Italy and later disbanded (probably in 1918).
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
10th (Battersea) Battalion, Queen's (Royal West Surrey) Regiment
Marking the service of units of the British army based in the Borough of Wand...
Born Harold Sandford Mugford at 149 Keetons Road, Bermondsey. On the 11th April 1917, at Monchy-le-Preux, France, he put his machine-gun in an exposed position from which he was able to face the en...
Andrew Behan has kindly carried out some research on this soldier: Born Maidenhead, Berkshire, the son of Denis Joseph Daly and Valerie Margaret Daly, née Stirling-Stuart. He married Nichola F Barc...
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
Flying Officer John Acy Campbell III, DFC, was born on 3 November 1921 in San Pedro, Los Angeles, California, USA, the elder child of John Acy Campbell Jnr (1896-1980) and Mary Magdalene Campbell n...
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
At the north end of Post Office Court, attached to the west wall adjoining St Mary Woolnoth, are six salvaged carved panels. We have numb...
Born Totteridge. Ordained into the Church of England in 1833, the same year he married Caroline Sargent, who died in 1837, childless. Member of the Oxford Movement and converted to Catholicism in...
The landings, also known as Operation Neptune, were the landing operations in Operation Overlord during WW2. The 'D' in D-Day doesn't stand for anything as it was used as a substitute for the actua...
Resident of Willesden who volunteered and died in the Anglo Boer War, 1899-1900.
From 2013 Organ Donation news item: "In the last ten years, around 10,000 people have been honoured {with the St John award} and are estimated to have made more than 25,000 organ transplants possi...
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