Brother to Laurance Grant and William Alexander. From Ali-Berko: "Norman Cairns Robertson .... joined the Inns of Court Officers Training Corps in 1914 and was commissioned Captain in the 2nd. Battalion Hampshire Regiment on 20th February 1915. He was taken prisoner after action near Monchy on 23rd April 1917 and he died in a Military Hospital in Hanover, Germany, in June of that year. He is buried in Hamburg Cemetery."
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Norman Cairns Robertson
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Sutton House & the Robertson brothers
Sutton House This building was given to the National Trust by W. A. Robertson...
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Bushra Nasir
Studied at Queen Mary University and in 1997 became the first Muslim headteacher of a state school, Plashet School for Girls in East Ham.
W. Clarke
Resident of Willesden who volunteered and died in the Anglo Boer War, 1899-1900.
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Arthur George Walker
Sculptor and painter. Born Hackney. Other work in London: Heston war memorial.
World War 1
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came along at which point it was renamed as World War One or the First World War. But the term was first used in print in 1920...
Bedford Music Halls, Old and New
Performers and patrons were depicted by the artist Walter Sickert at the turn of the century.
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