Citizens of Hackney whether recorded or unknown, civilian or combatant, who lost their lives in the Second World War.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Hackney citizens lost in WW2
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MOTH Hackney WW2 memorial
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Dickens Fellowship
A worldwide association of people who share an interest in the life and works of Charles Dickens, based at the Charles Dickens Museum since 1925.
Tsunami Support UK
2011: "The Tsunami Support Network, coordinated by the British Red Cross, has now passed on its activities to an elected committee aimed at continuing to help provide support for families and indiv...
Metropolitan Asylums Board
A campaign by Florence Nightingale and Edwin Chadwick led to the establishment of this board. It dealt with London's sick poor (but excluding those in Penge, for some reason), those with infectio...
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Robert Hollond
Balloonist and politician. Born London to a wealthy Bengal civil servant. Financed the 1836 balloon voyage from Vauxhall Gardens to Weilburg in Germany, on which he was a passenger. This set a reco...
Eleanor Marx-Aveling
Socialist writer and activist. Karl Marx's daughter, born 28 Dean Street and nicknamed Tussy. Her father's secretary from an early age, she returned home to nurse her aged parents. Created the fir...
Private Alfred Richard Bowyer
Alfred Richard Bowyer was born on the 26 April 1893 in Marylebone, one of the eight children of James Bowyer (1866-1942) and Frances Bowyer née Parnell (1868-1945). He was baptised on 28 May 1893 a...
St Anne's Church Limehouse - WW1 memorial
E14, Three Colt Street, 7
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