Footballer and soldier. He started his football career with Sunderland District Amateur League sides Braeside and Sunderland West End, and joined Clapton Orient in July 1908. At the outbreak of WW1 he enlisted with the 17th Middlesex Regiment, the 'Footballers' Battalion'. During the Battle of the Somme, he was wounded and taken prisoner, and died at a German military hospital.
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George Scott
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Thomas John Casson was born circa 1886 in Lambeth, Surrey (now Greater London), the second of the seven children of James Casson (b.circa 1859) and Mary Sophia Casson née Young (circa 1866-1952). H...
Resident of Willesden who volunteered and died in the Anglo Boer War, 1899-1900.
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Julian Kent Tremain was born on 30 September 1960 in Pittsburgh, County Allegheny, Pennsylvania, USA, the son of Gordon Hoyland Tremain (1942-2006) and Monica Anne Tremain née Sones (1940-2011). H...
Fig Tree Court , 1515 - 1666, was destroyed in the Great Fire of London, rebuilt in 1679 and again destroyed by enemy action 1940.
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