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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Sir Edward Henry
Metropolitan Police Commissioner 1903 - 1918, pioneer of fingerprint identification and saw the introduction of dogs into the force. Born Shadwell. Trained for the Indian Civil Service and went th...
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War dead, WW1
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Brigadier A. F. L. Clive
Born Archer Francis Lawrence Clive. Military Cross in 1914. 1941-3 commanded the 6th Battalion Grenadier Guards, including at the Battle of Morpeth.
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Samuel Jackson
Had served in the Royal Dragoons. At the time of his death was an in-pensioner at Chelsea Hospital and a patient in the Infirmary.
War dead non-military, WW2
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Dame Heather Rabbatts
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Kilburn Wells
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Katherine Low Settlement
A charity founded as part of the settlement movement, in tribute to philanthropist Katherine Mackay Low who had died the year before. It supports after-school projects and a youth club for young pe...
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