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 ...
Other Subjects
War dead, WW2
1 memorial
Lieutenant George Richard Eddie
George Richard Eddie was born in 1882 in Market Stainton, Lincolnshire, the eldest of the three children of George William Eddie (1856-1906) and Blanche Adeline Eddie née Ogle (1857-1940). His birt...
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Battle of Arnhem
In WW2, during Operation Market Garden, the British 1st Airborne Division and the Poish 1st Independent Parachute Brigade were given the task of securing the bridge at Arnhem. They were parachuted ...
1 memorial
G. Crossley
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
War served, WW1
1 memorial
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John Galsworthy
Novelist and playwright. Born Kingston Hill, Surrey. Nobel Prize for literature, 1932. The Forsyte Saga is his best known work. Died Grove Lodge, Hampstead.
4 memorials
Queen Elizabeth I
Daughter of King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. Born Greenwich Palace. Succeeded her half-sister Queen Mary I. Reigned: 1553 - 1603. Never married, no children, so followed by James I. Elizabeth I...
26 memorials
World War 1
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came along at which point it was renamed as World War One or the First World War. But the term was first used in print in 1920...
402 memorials
Napoleon Bonaparte
Military and political leader. Born at Ajaccio, Corsica. He trained as an officer in France and achieved prominence under the first French Republic. He led successful campaigns against the first an...
Person, Armed Forces, Politics & Administration, Seriously Famous, France
8 memorials
Angel Inn, near Smithfield Angel Inn
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1 memorial
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