Wing Commander. Born Simla, India. Leader of the Dambusters Raid for which he was awarded the V.C. Died when his plane crashed in the Netherlands returning from a bombing raid in Germany. Played by Richard Todd in the 1955 film, 'The Dam Busters'.
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Guy Penrose Gibson
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Guy Gibson
English Heritage Guy Gibson VC, 1918 - 1944, pilot, leader of the Dambusters ...
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W. B. Smith
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
Lord Edward Somerset
Soldier and elder brother of Lord Raglan. From Wikivividly : "... in 1815 they {the Life Guards} were part of The Household Brigade at the Battle of Waterloo under Major-General Lord Edward Somers...
Major-General Sir George Joseph Hamilton Evatt, KCB
George Joseph Hamilton Evatt was born on 11 November 1843 in Dublin, Ireland, the eldest child of Captain George Joseph Evatt of the 70th (Surrey) Regiment of Foot (1813-1858) and Mary Anne Evatt n...
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Ronald Gilligan
United Kingdom citizen who died in the terrorist attacks in America on 11 September 2001. Ronald Lawrence Gilligan was born on 15 May 1958 in Sefton General Hospital, Smithdown Road, Liverpool, La...
Richard Burton
NW3, Lyndhurst Road, 6
Burton lived here with his first wife, Welsh actress Sybil Williams. Plaque unveiled by Michael Sheen, another Welsh thespian.
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