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...
Bomber Harris
Unveiled by the Queen Mother on 31 May 1992, the 50th anniversary of the firs...
Other Subjects
3rd County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters)
On 23 July 1901, the 3rd County of London Imperial Yeomanry (Sharpshooters) was formed and on 1 April 1908, the regiment was renamed as the 3rd County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters) and transfe...
1 memorial
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
G. H. A. Stevenson
R. Navy and 4th Leicester Regt. Fought but did not die in WW1
War served, WW1
1 memorial
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
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Lance Corporal Henry Robert Maynard
Henry Robert Maynard was born in 1886 in East Witton, Yorkshire, the eldest of the three children of Henry Robert Maynard (1852-1933) and Anne Matilda Maynard née Horne (1858-1925). His birth was r...
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Boris Nemtsov
Boris Yefimovich Nemtsov was a Russian physicist, liberal politician, and outspoken critic of Vladimir Putin. Early in his political career, he was involved in the introduction of reforms into the ...
1 memorial
Senator Robert Kennedy
Born at Boston, Massachusetts. Assassinated at Los Angeles, California while campaigning for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
1 memorial
Haakon VII
SE16, St Olav's Square, St Olav's Church
From Royal House of Norway: "The bust of King Haakon ... is a variation of the large statue of King Haakon located outside of the Ministr...
1 subject commemorated,
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