Born Ipswich. Trained as a barrister. In WW1 he served in the Royal Army Medical Corp and rose to be captain. He was awarded a Military Cross on 3 June 1918. 1929 became a Member of the Corporation of the City of London. Conservative MP for Blackburn 1931-45. Knighted in 1944. Chairman of the Chairman of the City of London Schools Committee in 1936.
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Captain George Sampson Elliston
We thank James Parkes for spotting this stone, photographing it and bringing ...
Thomas William Richard Henry Haskell was born on 1 February 1901 the second of the seven children of Thomas Henry Haskell (1879-1949) and Alice Maud Mary Haskell née Vidler (1873-1946). His birth w...
Captain Douglas Everett Booth was born on 1 June 1919 in New York City, New York, USA, the son of Everett Lucius Booth (1890-1976) and Esther Booth née Fogg (1892-1986). United States Federal Censu...
A player at the London Welsh Rugby Football Club who was killed in WW1. A Wrexham paper has an article about Taylor: "Taylor was the first of 13 capped Wales players to lose their lives in the con...
Soldier. Born Sidney Frank Godley in East Grinstead, West Sussex. Fought with the 4th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers. He was awarded the first Victoria Cross of WW1, and was also the first private sold...
This building, now a hotel, was the wartime headquarters of the Women's Voluntary Services.
This is an odd square arrangement of plaques surrounded with bedding plants and miniature pylons chained together to form trip hazards. T...
There is a 53 page, privately printed history of the Old Serjeants Inn, published in 1912 by the Law Union and Rock Insurance Company Ltd, who acquired the property in 1909.
Lewisham War Memorials have researched all the names on this memorial.
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