Ira Aldridge

Ira Aldridge

Actor. Born Ira Frederick Aldridge in New York City (his date of birth is approximate). He started his acting career with the African Company in the early 1820s, but faced with racial discriminatio...

Person, Race Issues, Theatre, Poland, USA

1 memorial
Robert Polhill Bevan

Robert Polhill Bevan

Painter,  born Hove.  Founding member of the Camden Town Group, the London Group, and the Cumberland Market Group.  Married Polish painter Stanisława de Karłowska and thereafter spent many summers ...

Person, Art, Poland

1 memorial
ORP Błyskawica

ORP Błyskawica

Former Destroyer in the Polish Navy. ORP stands for Okret Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej (Ship of the Polish Republic).

Vehicle, Armed Forces, Poland

1 memorial
Serjeant Adam Cubie Brand

Serjeant Adam Cubie Brand

Adam Cubie Brand was born on 18 March 1909 and was married to his wife Daisy Anne Brand (b.18 February 1914). U.K. Postal Appointment Books lists him twice as a sorter in the London Postal Service...

Person, Armed Forces, Poland

War dead, WW2
1 memorial
Anna Brandt

Anna Brandt

Anna Iskryzinski was born on 26 March 1964 in Radomsko, Poland, the eldest of three children. Her sister Ewa Iskryzinski was born in June 1965 and her brother Pawel Iskryzinski was born in February...

Person, Tragedy, Poland

3 memorials
E. Gordon Brettell

E. Gordon Brettell

Flight Lieutenant Edward Gordon Brettell DFC was born on 19 March 1915, the eldest of the three children of Vivian Brettell (1882-1949) and Eileen Isabella Brettell née Carroll (1887-1979). His bir...

Person, Armed Forces, Execution, Poland

War dead, WW2
1 memorial
Fredda Brilliant

Fredda Brilliant

Polish actor and sculptor. 1924 emigrated with her parents to Australia. Moved to New York and then while in Moscow in 1935 married Herbert Marshall and changed her name to his.  1937 they moved to...

Person, Cinema, Sculpture, Theatre, Australia, Poland

1 memorial
B. Brynberg

B. Brynberg

CN Co. 4'E Shuntien. Andrew Behan has researched this man: Fourth Engineering Officer Brynberg was born about 1919, in Poland, the son of Samuel and Bertha Brynberg of Tel Aviv, Israel. He was em...

Person, China/Hong Kong, Poland

War dead non-military, WW2
1 memorial
ORP Burza

ORP Burza

Former Destroyer in the Polish Navy. ORP stands for Okret Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej (Ship of the Polish Republic).

Vehicle, Armed Forces, Poland

1 memorial
George Chapman

George Chapman

A barber/surgeon, who at the time of the murders lived in the cellar of the White Hart pub. He was later found guilty of poisoning his three wives for which he was hanged in Wandsworth Prison. Bor...

Person, Jack the Ripper suspects, Poland

2 memorials
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