William Richard Driver was the son of James Skelton Driver Junior (1891-1940) and Xylda Irwin Driver née Lowe (1898-1994). There is some confusion as to his date and place of birth. The American Ai...

Person, USA

War dead, WW2

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Sir Charles MacKerras

Conductor and musicologist. Born Schenectady, New York, but when he was three the family move to Australia where he was brought up. An authority on the operas of Janacek and Mozart, and the comic...

Person, Music / songs, Australia, USA

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Michael Minh Matsushita

Michael Minh Matsushita was born on 25 May 1968 in Vietnam, the son of a South Vietnamese soldier killed in the conflict when he was just five months old. At the age of three, he and his mother, Mu...

Person, Tragedy, USA, Vietnam

3 memorials

Donald Geffene

Pilot Officer, 71 Eagle Squadron, American, killed.

Person, USA

War dead, WW2

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Old Town Hall Stratford - 1885 extension

E15, West Ham Lane

The blue Parson plaque is on the north facade. The 1885 extension plaque is on West Ham Lane, the east side of the building (not in our p...

3 subjects commemorated, 1 creator

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John Heartfield

Born Helmut Herzfeld in the outskirts of Berlin. Changed his name in 1917 in protest at the anti-British feelings in Germany. Fleeing the Nazis in 1938 he came to England where he was interned for ...

Person, Art, Politics & Administration, Germany

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Terry Hunt

Terence James Hunt was born on 12 December 1957 and lived in Chadwell Heath, Essex. He was a firefighter attached to Silvertown fire station who died, aged 33 years, on 10 July 1991 while fighting...

Person, Emergency Services, Tragedy

3 memorials

6 Burlington Gardens - Justinian

W1, Burlington Gardens, 6

There are 22 statues on the façade of this building. Each is labelled with his (always 'his') surname. There are 12 at the top up against...

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Elizabeth Webb

From East London Cyclist: "Elizabeth was killed at the junction of Burdett Road and Mile End Road on Friday 24th September 1999 at 1.00 pm. The incident involved a 38-ton lorry turning left from Mi...

Person, Cyclist, Tragedy

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