Churchill's chief military advisor in WW2. Born (and brought up) in France as Alan Brooke into the Irish aristocracy. Entered the army aged 18 and served in Ireland and India and then in WW1, in France. Married twice, his first wife dying in 1925 in a car crash in which he was driving. In WW2 he was Chief of the Imperial General Staff and then Field Marshal. As a keen ornithologist he was president of the Zoological Society of London 1950 - 1954 and vice-president of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. Died at home in Hampshire.
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Field Marshal, First Viscount Alanbrooke
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Alanbrooke statue
{On the front of the plinth:} Field Marshal The Viscount Alanbrooke {Right s...
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War dead, WW2
1 memorial
Bill Faust (Billy)
Died with Adam Meere in a fire in Bethnal Green, which started in the basement of a children's clothes shop, Sohan and Sons, and spread to the flat above. Operating out of Whitechapel Fire Station,...
3 memorials
War dead, WW2
1 memorial
War dead, WW2
1 memorial
Sub-Lieutenant (A) Kenneth William Richter
Kenneth William Richter was born on 27 January 1920, the eldest of the four children of William Richter (1890-1934) and Harriet Martha Richter née Axon (1891-1970). His birth was registered in the ...
War dead, WW2
1 memorial
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Suffragettes - WC2 - new building
WC2, Clements Inn, Pethick-Lawrence House, LSE
We first saw this plaque when it was on the building that used to occupy this site. That was from 1990ish but the style of the plaque is ...
7 subjects commemorated
Keith Nigel Loudoun-Shand, OBE, TD
He is shown as Keith Loudoun-Shand on the Tea Industry plaque on Sir John Lyon House, 8 High Timber Street, London, EC4. Tea broker. Major in the Queen's Royal Rifles, awarded the OBE in 1965. Sour...
1 memorial
Alliott Verdon Roe - E17 (2)
E17, Walthamstow Marshes, Viaduct
The plaque is some distance from the nearest vantage point.
2 subjects commemorated,
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