Killed in the Camberwell Green air-raid, aged 48.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Elizabeth Wright
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Wedding party WW2 air raid
{Plaque on the upright element:} In memory of the people of Camberwell who di...
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Adam James Meere
Died while fighting a fire with Bill Faust, see there for details. Born in north-west Surrey. Aged 27, Meere had only completed his basic training a few months before.
3 memorials
Christine Granville
Wartime special agent. Britain’s first and longest-serving female WW2 secret agent. Born Maria Krystyna Janina Skarbek in Warsaw. When Germany invaded Poland her family moved to London and she joi...
Person, Espionage, Tragedy, Egypt, France, Hungary, Poland, Turkey
War served, WW2
1 memorial
Michael McCarthy
Nicknamed 'fox' because of his ginger hair. He was aged 19. The Islington Gazette reported "... McCarthy was attacked in revenge for abducting and torturing {a drug dealer}...". 6 weeks after that...
1 memorial
Delroy Manning
Plasterer killed in the Ladbroke Grove rail disaster, aged 39. Andrew Behan has kindly carried out further research: Delroy Oliver Manning was born on 14 January 1960 in Jamaica, West Indies. In M...
1 memorial
Ronald Charles Wiggins
The memorial does not give Wiggins a title (as it does for all the other names) and we are at a loss with "Southwark T/C". But we think Wiggins was a firefighter who died as a result of a fire.
1 memorial
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War dead, WW1
1 memorial
War dead, WW1
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War dead, WW1
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Joint Services School for Linguists (JSSL)
Trained linguists for covert work, mainly with Russian during the Cold War. The Army was based near Bodmin, the Navy at Coulsdon Camp (1952 - 4, at the Fox pub building), the RAF at Salisbury Villa...
2 memorials
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