Canada Memorial Foundation
The Canada Memorial Foundation has its origins in a Letter to the Editor published in a British newspaper in 1988 suggesting a monument in memory of the contribution of Canadians to World War I and...
Canadian Firefighters
The idea of the fire fighters volunteering to assist Britain was developed between the British government and the then Canadian Prime Minister, Mackenzie King. The Canadian fire fighters museum web...
Canadian personnel who served and died in WW2
85,000 Canadian personnel served in 48 RCAF Squadrons and with numerous RAF units. In all, 14,455 Canadian airmen made the supreme sacrifice while serving overseas.
Canadians who served in Britain in WW1 & WW2
Nearly 1,000,000 Canadians, almost all volunteers, who served in Britain in the two world wars, of which 110,000 died.
Central Ukrainian Relief Bureau
The headquarters were at 218 Sussex Gardens from September 1945 to the winter of 1948.
Raymond Chandler
Novelist. Born in Chicago, Illinois. After his father abandoned the family, his mother moved him to Britain to further his education, At Dulwich College. He worked for a while at the Admiralty, but...
Person, Literature, Canada, France, USA
Flt/Sgt. Alexander Chibanoff, RCAF
From Glendon, Alberta, Canada. Aged 22years. Buried in the Canadian Military Cemetery at Brookwood near Woking.
Jean Chrétien
Born Quebec, Canada. Prime Minister of Canada in 1993-2003.
Reverend Percival Clementi-Smith
Active in 1901 as rector of St Andrew by the Wardrobe. From A lord mayor's diary, 1906-7: "Rev. Percival. Clementi-Smith . . . has a very good head of white hair and a fine healthy-looking, good-h...