Role on the lost expedition: Able seaman on SS Terror. See John Franklin.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Ed. Laurence
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John Franklin statue
{On the front of the plinth:} To the great arctic navigator and his brave co...
Other Subjects
John Wilson
Role on the lost expedition: Petty officer on SS Terror. See John Franklin.
William Smith
Role on the lost expedition: Petty officer on SS Erebus. See John Franklin.
James Thompson
Role on the lost expedition: Officer on SS Terror. See John Franklin.
Philip Reddington
Role on the lost expedition: Petty officer on SS Erebus. See John Franklin.
William Moorcroft
Pioneer veterinary surgeon, Asian explorer. Born Lancashire. First Englishman to qualify as a vet, in France, during a revolution. He set up in practice in Oxford Street, creating a horse hosp...
Person, Animals, Exploring, Medicine, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Tibet, Uzbekistan
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17th (County of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (Poplar and Stepney Rifles)
London unit which served in WW1 where it lost 1,022 soldiers. More information at Stepping Forward London. It's Wikipedia page shows how it was formed in 1908, gives details of its service during...
Last V2 rocket in Kingston upon Thames
KT2, Park Road, Corner of King's Road
The plaque says that 8 people were killed but has the names of only five: four women and one 7-year-old girl.
12 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
Novello's printing works - printing
W1, Hollen Street
These reliefs are high up, at either end of the building. Not really memorials so normally we would not have collected these lovely cheru...
George Alexander Gratton
Born on the Caribbean island of St. Vincent in 1808 to slave parents. Born with vitiligo, also known as piebaldism he was, as a baby, put on show in the capital, Kingstown. Aged 15 months he was ta...
Auxiliary Fireman Frederick Scate
From the Sub Fire Station 6W, Cheyne Place. Died in a fire which took the lives of seven firemen, known as "The Wednesday".
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