Awarded the VC for his heroism on 16 August 1917, age 21, while serving in the King’s Royal Rifle Corps. "Enemy machine gun fire from a blockhouse was holding up the battalion’s advance. With four men he rushed forward firing into an opening in the blockhouse. Firing ceased. Seven machine guns and 45 prisoners were captured. (Ypres, Belgium)". Freemason at: №80, St John’s Lodge.
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Edward Cooper, VC
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Freemason VCs - N4 - Collings-Wells, Cooper, Cruickshank
John Stanhope Collings-Wells, 22-27 March 1918, Aged 37, The Bedfordshire Reg...
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F. C. Fisher
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
Private Frederick Lewis Perrett
Frederick Lewis Perrett was born on 1 April 1889 at 54 Regency Street, Westminster, London, the fifth of the eight children of Lewis John Perrett (1854-1925) and Eliza Matilda Perrett née Jones (18...
P. Dudley Morris
Resident of the Central Ward, Hendon who served and died in WW1.
H. Durndell
Employed at the Streatham bus garage. Served and was killed in WW1.
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St Saviours, Pimlico war memorial
SW1, Lupus Street, St Saviours, Pimlico
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Theo. E. Williams
Resident of the Central Ward, Hendon who served and died in WW1.
John Dando Sedding
Architect. Born Eton. Specialised in churches and worked in an Arts and Crafts style of Gothic. His major work is Holy Trinity, Sloane Square but this dedicated website lists 6 other churches in ...
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