Group    From 14/7/1936 

Bomber Command crews

Categories: Armed Forces

During WW2 they flew over Germany at night to bomb first industial targets but later whole areas including civilian towns. Their average age was 22 and they went out night after night, knowing that their chances of survival were about 50%. More than 55,573 lost their lives and their bodies were not brought back. Harris's strategy of bombing civilian towns was so controversial that after the war no campaign medal was given to the bombers and they were not mentioned in Churchill's victory speech. 

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Bomber Command crews

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Bomber Command Memorial

The campaign to bomb civilians was so controversial that the bombers were giv...

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Bomber Harris

Unveiled by the Queen Mother on 31 May 1992, the 50th anniversary of the firs...

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C. Osborne

C. Osborne

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
Royal Arsenal Gatehouse

Royal Arsenal Gatehouse

Also known as the Beresford Gate (after William Beresford, Master-General of the Ordnance and Governor of the Royal Military Academy in Woolwich), and was formerly the main entrance to the Royal Ar...

Place, Architecture, Armed Forces

1 memorial
W. C. Clarke

W. C. Clarke

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
Jack Gowlett

Jack Gowlett

Resident of the Central Ward, Hendon who served and died in WW1.

Person, Armed Forces

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Lance Serjeant John Edward Lavery

Lance Serjeant John Edward Lavery

John Edward Lavery was born in County Down, Northern Ireland and resided in Armagh, Northern Ireland. On 28 July 1938 he was appointed as a postman in the London Postal Region. He was serving as a...

Person, Armed Forces, Ireland, Scotland

War dead, WW2
1 memorial

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Fawcett frieze - 52, Wilkinson

Fawcett frieze - 52, Wilkinson

SW1, Parliament Square

Most statues have plinths, which often carry the identity of the statue but little more. The plinth for this Millicent Fawcett statue is ...

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