Temporary portable harbours developed by the United Kingdom in WW2 for the rapid offloading of vehicles onto beaches. They were used mainly during the Normandy landings in June 1944. Designed by Major Allan Beckett, from an idea by Winston Churchill, who was determined never to repeat the disastrous 1915 amphibious landings on beaches during the Gallipoli Campaign.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Mulberry Harbours
Major Allan H Beckett MBE RE (1914 - 2005) lived here (1919 - 1939). His engi...
Employed at the Holloway bus/tram garage - Pemberton Gardens. Served and was killed in WW1.
Awarded the VC for his heroism on 30 November 1917, age 41, while serving in the Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment). "Most conspicuous bravery, initiative and determination. When brigade HQ ...
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
Married to Robert Trotter and widowed in 1877. See Robert's page for more information.
Socialist propogandist and educationalist. Born at Throgg's Neck, Westchester county, New York. Both her parents were from Scotland, and the family returned there when her father died. She attended...
These 11 plaques are laid into the floor of the hall, in a line down the middle, in this sequence, starting at the entrance end: R101; Ha...
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