Group    From 1991 

Battlefields Trust

Categories: Armed Forces, History

Founded to preserve the battle sites of Britain. The founding motivation was the fact that the battlefield of Naseby, (a perfectly preserved site of the battle of the English Civil War), was to be bisected by a motorway.

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk

This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Battlefields Trust

Creations i

First V2 rocket attack

An adjacent information panel gives extensive information about the attack an...

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New Model Army

New Model Army

Created by the Parliamentarians to oppose the King's forces.  It was a professional army, in contrast to the part-time local militia they had at their disposal previously.  The men were full-time s...

Group, Armed Forces

2 memorials
E. J. Arnold

E. J. Arnold

Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.

Person, Armed Forces

War served, WW1
1 memorial
Alfred Adrian Jones, MVO, FRBS

Alfred Adrian Jones, MVO, FRBS

Born Ludlow. Served in the army in the First Boer War as a veterinary captain. As a sculptor he specialised in animal figures. See Speel for more of his work. Our Picture Source and his Wikipedia p...

Person, Armed Forces, Sculpture

5 memorials
R. B. Fitchett

R. B. Fitchett

Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.

Person, Armed Forces

War served, WW1
1 memorial
Marine Police

Marine Police

Founded by magistrate Patrick Colquhoun and Master Mariner John Harriott, on the site from which it still operates. Set up to protect the cargo ships from theft which was proving very costly to the...

Group, Armed Forces

1 memorial