The US, backed by the UN, invaded Iraq in response to Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait. Not to be confused with the Iraq War, March 2003 - December 2011 when the US invaded Iraq again.
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Gulf War
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Fleet Air Arm
This bronze figure represents Daedalus, the Greek guy who crafted wings for h...
Gurkha soldier
Unveiled by the Queen. Modelled by Jackson on the 1929 statue by Goulden in t...
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Operation Overlord
The allied campaign in WW2 for the liberation of North West Europe including the Normandy D-Day landings.
3 memorials
War dead, WW2
1 memorial
War dead, WW2
1 memorial
George Thomas Dorrell, VC, MBE
Soldier. Born George Thomas Dorrell in Paddington. Wikipedia informs that he joined the army at the age of fifteen and first served in the Second Boer War. On 1st September 1914, at Néry, France, d...
War served, WW1
3 memorials
Lieutenant Colonel Robert Edward Frederic Shaw, MC
Robert Edward Frederic Shaw was born on 29 August 1891, the second of the five children of Robert Villiers George Shaw (1864-1946) and Agnes Marion Shaw née Guy (1862-1955). His birth was registere...
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
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Beatrice Bishop
Drowned in the 1898 HMS Albion disaster, aged 24. Buried in grave 4 at the memorial in East London Cemetery.
1 memorial
George Orwell
George Orwell was born in Bengal as Eric Arthur Blair, his father was a British colonial civil servant. Joined the Indian imperial police in Burma but left in 1927 and decided to become a writer. ...
Person, Journalism / Publishing, Literature, Seriously Famous, TV & Radio, Bengal, Burma, France, India, Spain
12 memorials
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