A player at the London Welsh Rugby Football Club who was killed in WW1.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Gwilym Jones
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London Welsh Rugby club - WW1
Unusually the plaque gives the birth and death years for each name. From a W...
Other Subjects
1 memorial
Barlow, 'Duke of Shoreditch'
From British History on-line: "In the reign of Henry VIII., when Shoreditch was still a mere waste of fields, dotted with windmills and probably, like Islington (fields, much frequented by archers...
1 memorial
Rev. E. K. Douglas
Vicar of St Mary of Eton, the Eton Mission, appointed in 1889 and, finding that boys playing football in Victoria Park was problematic, he set in motion the acquisition of 337 acres of Hackney Mars...
1 memorial
Ralph Dunkley
Former lecturer and amateur athlete. Birth year approximate. He ran with Gordon Pirie in the team that set a 15.27.2 minute world record for the 1500m relay in 1953.
1 memorial
Martina Bergman Ősterberg
Pioneer of Physical Education for Women. A Swedish supporter of women's rights who settled in London in 1881. She was appointed Superintendent of Physical Education for London's public schools. Wil...
1 memorial
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Noor Inayat Khan
WW2 spy and member of the French resistance. A descendant of the 18th century south Indian ruler Tipu Sultan, Khan was a follower of the Sufi faith and believed in non-violence. Born Moscow to pa...
War dead, WW2
4 memorials
Martha Gellhorn
American novelist, travel writer, and journalist, considered one of the great war correspondents of the 20th century. Gellhorn reported on virtually every major world conflict that took place durin...
1 memorial
Wimbledon Village Improvement 1964
SW19, Wimbledon High Street, Fire Station
This is Local London news item is useful. The LEB is mentioned on the plaque because at the time they owned the building, the former fire...
6 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
Rev. Joseph Harrison
Initially we had no information about this man but as soon as we published we were contacted by a few people who had taken on the challenge of identification. Mike Coleman has found his entry in t...
1 memorial
1 memorial
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