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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War dead, WW1
1 memorial
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...
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Air Mechanic 2nd Class George Greenland
George Greenland was born on 10 June 1896 in Stepney, London, the second of six children of George Greenland (1871-1923) and Charlotte Harriet Greenland née Sayers née Ockleford (1867-1946). His bi...
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
War dead, WW2
1 memorial
War dead, WW1
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Charles Bridgeman
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3 memorials
Bishop Wood of Croydon
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1 memorial
St Michael's church WW1 cross
NW1, Camden Road
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War dead | WW1
94 subjects commemorated
94 subjects commemorated
Alan Cartwright
Alan Barry Cartwright. At 7.30pm 15-year-old Alan was stabbed to death as he cycled with three friends in the Caledonian Road. The attackers made off with two bicycles. A few weeks later, on 6 Ma...
2 memorials
Hammersmith Socialists
W6, Upper Mall, 26, Kelmscott House
The inscription is a quote from William Morris's 1890 "News from Nowhere", in which the narrator, William Guest, the previous day having ...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
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