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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J. J. Ramsay
Employed at the Holloway tram garage. Served and was killed in WW1.
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
1 memorial
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
War dead, WW2
1 memorial
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Arthur Bourchier
Actor and theatre manager. Born in Speen, Berkshire. Made his first stage appearance in 1889, although his performances were met with less than critical acclaim. W. S. Gilbert said of his rendition...
Person, Cinema, Politics & Administration, Theatre, South Africa
1 memorial
Coronation of King George V and Queen Mary
King George V and Queen Mary. Vita Sackville-West's novel "The Edwardians" has an evocative description of this coronation from the perspective of a young Lord.
2 memorials
Ernest Ludlow, MC
Had served in the Grenadier Guards. At the time of his death worked at Chelsea Hospital as a Captain of Invalids. His wife Jessie, two sons, Ernest and Bernard, and niece, Alice, were killed in the...
War dead non-military, WW1
1 memorial
Parish pump Tooting
SW17, Mitcham Road
The quirky and much-missed Faded London Blog had a post on this item. Borough photos has a 1906 photo showing this structure in front of ...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
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