This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
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St Anne's Church Limehouse - WW1 memorial
The quotation "Greater love ... his friends." is from the biblical book of Jo...
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Sir George Carteret
Born St Helier, Jersey. Treasurer of the Navy 1660-7, Vice-Chamberlain of the Household 1660-70. In 1664 New Jersey, the American state, was named by Carteret after his place of birth. It (yes t...
John Alfred Prestwich
Inventor and designer of engines. Born Kensington. He worked with Sebastian de Ferranti and the cinema pioneer William Friese-Greene to produce cameras, mutoscopes, cutting and perforation machine...
Douglas Walter Belcher, VC
Soldier. Born Douglas Walter Belcher in Surbiton. He enlisted at the beginning of WW1 and fought at the second Battle of Ypres. Whilst in charge of a portion of breastwork (a temporary fortificatio...
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Patrick Cummings
Our colleague, Andrew Behan, has researched this young man: Patrick Eton Cummings was born on 21 September 1964 and died, aged 16 years, on 18 January 1981 in a fire at party being held at 439 New ...
Cromwell's body
WC1, Red Lion Street, Old Red Lion
The plaque gives the date of Cromwell's death rather than the date of his exhumation, three years later. And the fact of the dismemberme...
Machine Gun Corps memorial
W1, Hyde Park Corner
The statue is of the boy David holding Goliath's sword (the clue is in the size of the sword). The model for this statue used to be on pu...
Tom Goodway
Poplar councillor imprisoned during the 1921 rates protest.
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