Event    From 2/8/1990  To 28/2/1991

Gulf War

Categories: Armed Forces, Tragedy

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.

This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Gulf War

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Fleet Air Arm

This bronze figure represents Daedalus, the Greek guy who crafted wings for h...

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Gurkha soldier

Unveiled by the Queen. Modelled by Jackson on the 1929 statue by Goulden in t...

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A. E. Malley

A. E. Malley

Resident of Willesden who volunteered and died in the Anglo Boer War, 1899-1900.

Person, Armed Forces, South Africa

War dead, Other war
1 memorial
Sapper Maycock

Sapper Maycock

Royal Engineer killed by an exploding bomb while assisting in the attempt to disarm it. Andrew Behan has kindly carried out some research on this man: Somewhat difficult to trace this chap with an...

Person, Armed Forces, Tragedy

War dead, WW2
1 memorial
Conscientious Objectors, WW1 - Haringey

Conscientious Objectors, WW1 - Haringey

350 Haringey men were Conscientious Objectors in WW1. Some of the names are given at Conscientious Objection Remembered: Harry Phipps, a printer; Charlie Walker, one of five brothers, all COs; John...

Group, Armed Forces, Peace

1 memorial
Luke Allen

Luke Allen

Pilot Officer Luke Elbert Allen was born on 27 December 1917 in Las Animas, Bent, Colorado, USA, the second of the five children of Frank Wilson Allen (1897-1934) and Eugie Mae Allen née Fulbright ...

Person, Armed Forces, USA

War served, WW2
1 memorial
Thomas Rainsborough

Thomas Rainsborough

Grew up in Wapping.  A spokesman for the Levellers and a colonel in the New Model Army.  Killed by a Royalist raiding party during the siege of Pontefract.  The Levellers arranged for his funeral, ...

Person, Armed Forces, Politics & Administration

1 memorial