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

1 memorial

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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...

Group, Armed Forces

2 memorials

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.

Civilian war dead | WW2
12 subjects commemorated, 1 creator

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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...

1 subject commemorated

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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...

Person, Children, Race Issues, Caribbean Islands

1 memorial

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".

Person, Emergency Services

War dead non-military, WW2

1 memorial