HMS Victory was built in the Old Single Dock in Chatham's Royal Dockyard. From her website "she would gain renown leading fleets in the American War of Independence, the French Revolutionary War and the Napoleonic War. In 1805 she achieved lasting fame as the flagship of Vice-Admiral Nelson in Britain's greatest naval victory, the defeat of the French and Spanish at the Battle of Trafalgar. ... In 1922 she was saved for the nation and placed permanently into dry dock where she remains today." In Portsmouth.
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Hurlingham Yacht Club
1922 is the year that the Club took on its current name, though we don't know...
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War dead, WW1
1 memorial
C. Tapp
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
War served, WW1
1 memorial
Thos. F. Baldwin
Resident of the Central Ward, Hendon who served and died in WW1.
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
J. Jacobs
Resident of Willesden who volunteered and died in the Anglo Boer War, 1899-1900.
War dead, Other war
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War dead, WW1
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1 memorial
Edwin Root Sewell
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1 memorial
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1 memorial
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