Group    From 1908 

17th Battalion (Poplar & Stepney Rfls.)

Categories: Armed Forces

London unit which served in WW1 where it lost 1,022 soldiers. More information at Stepping Forward London.

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17th Battalion (Poplar & Stepney Rfls.)

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London Troops War Memorial

Designed by Aston Webb with figures by Alfred Drury. The Duke of York who un...

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Poplar & Stepney Rifles

Poplar & Stepney Rifles Site of the Drill Hall (1860 - 1907) of 26th Midd...

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Other Subjects

Sir Cloudesly Shovell

Sir Cloudesly Shovell

Admiral of the Fleet. Born Norfolk. Died when shipwrecked on the Isles of Scilly.

Person, Armed Forces

1 memorial
Major Clarence Evelyn Beerbohm

Major Clarence Evelyn Beerbohm

Clarence Evelyn Beerbohm was the younger of the two children of Julius Beerbohm (1854-1906) and Evelyn Beerbohm née Davies, (1849-1931). His birth was registered in the 2nd quarter of 1885 in the M...

Person, Armed Forces, Theatre, Belgium

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
R. D. Peckham

R. D. Peckham

Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.

Person, Armed Forces

War served, WW1
1 memorial
Marshal Ferdinand Foch

Marshal Ferdinand Foch

Soldier and writer. Born in Tarbes, Hautes-Pyrénées, France. He enlisted in the French army in 1870 during the Franco-Prussian war. During the First World War he distinguished himself at the battle...

Person, Armed Forces, Literature, France

1 memorial
Lieutenant Colonel John Guilbert DuFour

Lieutenant Colonel John Guilbert DuFour

John Guilbert DuFour was born on 6 September 1909 in Alameda, Alameda County, California, USA, the elder child of Clarence John DuFour (1879-1937) and Emily Marcia DuFour née Taylor (1879- 1966). H...

Person, Armed Forces, USA

War served, WW2
1 memorial