Awarded the VC for his heroism on 18 August 1919, age 34, while serving in the Royal Navy. "Commanding Coastal Motor Boat №31 he passed into Kronstadt Harbour under heavy machine gun fire, torpedoed the battleship Andrei Pervozvann, and escaped under heavy fire showing conspicuous gallantry and skill. (Kronstadt, Russia)". Freemason at: №2612, Navy Lodge.
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Claude Congreve Dobson, VC
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Freemason VCs - N6 - Dimmer, Dobson, Dorrell
John Henry Stephen Dimmer, 12 November 1914, Age 31, The King’s Royal Rifle C...
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S. R. Gardner
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
War served, WW1
1 memorial
J. W. C. Moore
Member of the staff of A. W. Gamage Ltd and/or Benetfink & Co. Ltd. Killed in WW1.
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Sir William Robertson, Field Marshal
Born Lincolnshire with humble origins. He enlisted in 1877 and rose rapidly through the ranks, not commanding troops but excelling in intellectual work such as languages and intelligence. Died at...
1 memorial
A. G. Beavis
Employed at the Holloway bus/tram garage - Pemberton Gardens. Served and was killed in WW1.
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
War dead, WW2
1 memorial
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Friars of the Holy Cross, Crutched Friars
Their odd name is just a corruption of 'Crossed', a reference to the red cloth cross which they wore on their garments. The Crutched Friars House in the City was founded at the end of the 13th cen...
1 memorial
Private Robert Sheehy
Robert Sheehy was born in 1877 in Hampstead, a son of John Sheehy (b.circa 1827 and Maria Sheehy (b.circa 1842). On 2 December 1877 he was baptised in Christ Church, Hampstead, where in the baptism...
War dead, WW1
2 memorials
Lieutenant Richard Jones VC
SE13, Lewisham High Street
The plaque is on the ground near the Lewisham war memorial.
3 subjects commemorated,
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Lawrence Albert Chatterton
Pilot Officer Lawrence Albert Chatterton was born on 23 June 1919 in New York, USA. He was the son of Lorraine Benton Chatterton (1892-1960) and Marie Louise Chatterton née Carlisle (b.1898). The f...
War dead, WW2
1 memorial
members of the Allied armies who died in Battle of Waterloo
Our picture comes from Londonist's review of an exhibition of the photographs of Sam Faulkner.
3 memorials
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