Hero. Born Berkshire. Royal Navy captain. Served in WW1 and WW2 and awarded CBE in 1943. This 'Have-a-go' hero single-handed attempted to stop 'smash-and-grab' thieves at a jeweller's shop in Birchen Lane in the City and died from injuries received. Blitzwalkers gives the full story. You'll be glad to hear that the robbers were caught and "banged to rights". Would we have made it in tabloid journalism?
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Captain Ralph Douglas Binney
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Captain Binney
This plaque was given by the Royal Navy in memory of Captain Ralph Douglas Bi...
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War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Alfred Young
Aged 35, Detective Sergeant Young was shot dead on duty on 14 July 1915 while attempting to arrest a man with a gun. Buried in Hampstead Cemetery, Fortune Green. From Met Police: "Alfred had been ...
1 memorial
H. A. Webb
Resident of Willesden who volunteered and died in the Anglo Boer War, 1899-1900.
War dead, Other war
1 memorial
George William Bates
Resident of Willesden who volunteered and died in the Anglo Boer War, 1899-1900.
War dead, Other war
1 memorial
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
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Edith Davidson
Born Edith Murdoch Tait, daughter of Archibald Tait, Archbishop of Canterbury. 12 November 1878 Married Randall Davidson who went on to become Archbishop of Canterbury.
1 memorial
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Composer. Born at the vicarage in Down Ampney, Gloucestershire. Entered the Royal College of Music in 1890, where he studied alongside Hubert Parry. He went on to study in Berlin and Paris. Under t...
2 memorials
Radclyffe Hall
Novelist and poet. Born as Marguerite Radclyffe Hall in Bournemouth into a wealthy family. From 1917 until her death Hall lived with Una Troubridge but had a number of affairs with other women. T...
1 memorial
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