Role on the lost expedition: Able seaman on SS Erebus. See John Franklin.
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George Williams
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John Franklin statue
{On the front of the plinth:} To the great arctic navigator and his brave co...
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Bartolomeu Dias
Portuguese nobleman who sailed around the Cape of Good Hope, the southern tip of Africa, in 1488, the first European known to do so since ancient times.
Henry F. Collins
Role on the lost expedition: Officer on SS Erebus. See John Franklin.
Alexander Wilson
Role on the lost expedition: Petty officer on SS Terror. See John Franklin.
Dr. Edward Adrian Wilson
Born Cheltenham. One of Scott's four companions who died with him, returning from the South Pole. Cheltenham honours Wilson with a statue on the Promenade and an exhibition in the town museum.
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Holborn Viaduct - Myddelton
EC4, Holborn Viaduct
The sculptor has a page about this statue and its creation with some interesting photos.
Loughton war memorial
IG10, King's Green
The quotation on the 1919 face comes from the Bible, Joshua 4:3, 6-7: "... and these stones shall be for a memorial unto the children of ...
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