Churchill's chief military advisor in WW2. Born (and brought up) in France as Alan Brooke into the Irish aristocracy. Entered the army aged 18 and served in Ireland and India and then in WW1, in France. Married twice, his first wife dying in 1925 in a car crash in which he was driving. In WW2 he was Chief of the Imperial General Staff and then Field Marshal. As a keen ornithologist he was president of the Zoological Society of London 1950 - 1954 and vice-president of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. Died at home in Hampshire.
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Field Marshal, First Viscount Alanbrooke
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Alanbrooke statue
{On the front of the plinth:} Field Marshal The Viscount Alanbrooke {Right s...
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Able Seaman George Stephen Holder
George Stephen Holder was born on 3 September 1872 in Dover, Kent, the youngest of the four children of Benjamin James Holder (b.1836) and Rosina Hannah Holder née Smith (1837-1919). His birth was ...
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1 memorial
S. R. Gardner
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War served, WW1
1 memorial
2 memorials
War dead, WW2
1 memorial
Stanley Carter
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Robert Byford
Worked for the Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society. Was on the building committee for the Abbey Wood branch in 1912. Imago have this photo of Mr and Mrs Byford, at some sort of event - the woman be...
2 memorials
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