Awarded the VC for his heroism on 8 August 1917, age 28, while serving in the Royal Navy. "With his ship under attack from an enemy submarine he continued to man his gun and direct effective fire. For his exceptional gallantry he was selected by the gun crew to receive the award. (Bay of Biscay)". Freemason at: №1428, United Service Lodge.
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Ernest Herbert Pitcher, VC
Commemorated ati
Freemason VCs - W8 - Myles, Neame, Nelson, Pitcher
Edgar Kinghorn Myles, 9 April 1916, Age 21, The Welsh Regiment, Excelsior Lod...
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PC Gary Toms
From Police Memorial Trust: "PC Gary Toms and a colleague were in a marked police car in Ashlin Road, Stratford when they began to follow a car that had been reported as being used in a burglary in...
1 memorial
Serjeant Ernest Harry Hann
Ernest Harry Hann was the fourth of the nine children of Harry Hann (1860-1903) and Harriet Annie Hann née Smith (1859-1923). His birth was registered in the 4th quarter of 1886 in the Islington re...
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
W. H. Childs
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
War served, WW1
1 memorial
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
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Ramsay at IC
SW7, Prince Consort Road, Imperial College
This building, the Royal School of Mines, (1906, Aston Webb). has 34 memorials: a foundation stone, 2 busts and 30 scientists' surnames p...
1 subject commemorated
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