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Department for Communities and Local Government

A department of the government of the UK. From Victoria Cross commemorative paving stones: "In August 2013, the UK government announced a campaign to honour Victoria Cross recipients from the First World War. As part of this, commemorative paving stones will be laid in the birth place of Victoria Cross recipients to honour their bravery and provide a lasting legacy of local heroes within communities. A total of 628 Victoria Crosses were awarded during the First World War, of which 145 were awarded to servicemen who fought for Britain, but were born overseas."

That VC site has a map showing the location of all the paving stones. But August 2017, we see that the map is not being kept updated with all the plaques that we know about. July 2018: it's still very out of date. April 2020: we think this site has been abandoned.

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Department for Communities and Local Government

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Alan Jerrard VC

{Beneath an image of a Victoria Cross medal:} Lieutenant Alan Jerrard Royal F...

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Albert Mckenzie VC plaque

We thank our colleague Alan Patient for this photo.

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Alfred Drake VC

Unveiled shortly before 1 Dec 2015, probably on 23 November 2015.

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Arthur Lascelles VC

{Beneath a representation of the Victoria Cross medal:} Captain Arthur Lascel...

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Benjamin Geary VC

{Beneath a representation of the Victoria Cross medal:} Second Lieutenant, Be...

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Philip Twells

Philip Twells

Banker, barrister and MP for the City of London. Lived in Enfield where his widow built St Mary Magdalene Church on Windmill Hill in his memory. They also had homes in Grosvenor Place and Eastbour...

Person, Politics & Administration

2 memorials
S. R. Pearce

S. R. Pearce

1893 Superintendent of the Metropolitan Tabernacle Sunday School.

Person, Education, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Charles de Gaulle

Charles de Gaulle

Born Lille, France. Height 6 ft, 5 inches, nicknamed Le Grande Asperge. President of France 1958-69. Just like Queen Wilhelmina, while in London he used the BBC to send popular messages of resistan...

Person, Armed Forces, Politics & Administration, Seriously Famous, France

5 memorials
Guiseppe Pinelli

Guiseppe Pinelli

Anarchist. Born Milan, Italy. Worked as a railroad fitter. One of a number of anarchists who were taken in for questioning following a bomb that went off in Milan killing 17 people. Pinelli was see...

Person, Politics & Administration, Tragedy, Italy

1 memorial
Peter of Savoy

Peter of Savoy

Ninth Earl of Savoy and first earl of Richmond. Uncle to Eleanor of Provence, Henry III's wife. Henry gave him the land on which, in 1263, he built the Savoy Palace.

Person, Politics & Administration

3 memorials

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Charles H. Driver

Charles H. Driver

Architect, known for his pioneering use of ornamental iron work.  His work in London includes: The Crystal Palace/Great Exhibition, Thames Embankment, Abbey Mills Pumping House, a number of railway...

Person, Architecture

1 memorial
Sir Robert Peel, PM

Sir Robert Peel, PM

MP and Prime Minister in the 1830s and 40s. Reorganised the London police force and hence gave rise to the expressions "Peelers" and "Bobbies" for the police. He based the new structure on that of ...

Person, Politics & Administration

6 memorials
Sir William Perkin

Sir William Perkin

E1, Cable Street

Sir William Henry Perkin, FRS, discovered the first aniline dyestuff, March 1856, while working in his home laboratory on this site and w...

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
Board of Ordnance / Royal Army Ordnance Corps

Board of Ordnance / Royal Army Ordnance Corps

Responsible for the supply of armaments and munitions to the army and the navy, based in the Tower of London and also used Verbruggen's House at the Woolwich Arsenal until 1939. Disbanded in 1855 d...

Group, Armed Forces

4 memorials
Theodore H. Bryant

Theodore H. Bryant

Co-owner and director of the Bryant and May match factory.

Person, Commerce, Politics & Administration

1 memorial