The surrender of Japan was announced in Japan (USA, Europe, etc.) on 14 (15) August 1945 and effectively ended WW2. The paperwork was done two weeks later on 2 September. All three dates are sometimes known as VJ Day. In the UK the official date is 15 August. The title was chosen by analogy to VE Day for Victory in Europe.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
50th anniversary of VJ Day
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Dwight D Eisenhower - Kingston
General Dwight D. Eisenhower, supreme commander, allied forces Europe, Genera...
Last V2 rocket in Kingston upon Thames
The plaque says that 8 people were killed but has the names of only five: fou...
WW2 - Westminster
15 August is the official VJ Day in the UK so erecting this plaque on Wednesd...
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Sir Isaiah Berlin
Sir Isaiah Berlin OM CBE FBA was a Russian-British social and political theorist, philosopher, and historian of ideas. Born in Riga into a wealthy family, which moved with him to London, in 1921. ...
2 memorials
Henry Walter Fincham, F.S.A.
Co-church warden of St James & St John, Clerkenwell in 1890. Henry Walter Fincham was born on 27 February 1859, the youngest of the four children of Henry Fincham (1812-1887) and Mary Ann Finc...
2 memorials
Caitlin Deaneglis
One of a list of 26 researchers involved in researching Hester Leggatt's background.
1 memorial
Canon Richard Watson Dixon
Born Islington. Ecclesiastical historian and poet. At Pembroke College, Oxford, he became one of the ‘Birmingham Group’ along with William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones. He was considered for Poe...
1 memorial
1 memorial
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Buddy Holly
W6, Queen Caroline Street, 45, Hammersmith Apollo
We took a (very bad) photo of this plaque some years ago. The theatre was closed at the time, but the plaque could be seen in the foyer, ...
2 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
38 Brunswick Square
This 4-storey Georgian house was built by Charles Mayor under the supervision of James Burton in 1804. The only other notable former resident was John Thomas (1818-32), Governor of the Foundling Ho...
1 memorial
1 memorial
2 memorials
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