The British Navy is known as the Senior Service because it is the oldest of the British armed services (not because it was named after the cigarettes).
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
British Navy, officers & men who lost lives in submarines, WW1&2
Commemorated ati
National Submarine War Memorial
The bronze relief depicts, in cross section, the interior of a submarine in w...
Other Subjects
Alfred Maurice Toye, VC
Awarded the VC for his heroism on 25 March – 24 April 1918, age 20, while serving in the Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment). "On a number of occasions he seized the initiative and restore...
Group Captain Roxley McLennan
Deputy Chief of Air Force (2004–05), Commander Integrated Area Defence System, Malaysia (2002–04), Commander Air Lift Group (1998–00).
Field Marshall Earl Alexander of Tunis
Military commander. Born London of Anglo-Irish descent. Served in both world wars. A keen artist (painter and sculptor) as well as a excellent sportsman. We note this because these two attributes a...
Lance Corporal George William Matthews
George William Matthews was born in 1894 in North Kensington, London, the son of George John Henry Matthews (1872-1951) and Alice Elizabeth Matthews née Gregory (1873-1928). His birth was registere...
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