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: Sapper Stanley Victor White was born on 20 Ju...

Person, Armed Forces, Tragedy

War dead, WW2

1 memorial

E. Horney

J. Lyons & Co. Ltd. staff member who died in WW2.

Person, Armed Forces

War dead, WW2

1 memorial

Hubert J. Harris

Resident of the West Ward, Hendon who served and died in WW1.

Person, Armed Forces

War dead, WW1

1 memorial

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Dora Gordine

Born Latvia. First visited London in 1926. The Picture Source website provides a biography. Married Richard Hare and built, with him, Dorich House which is where she died and is now a museum. For ...

Person, Sculpture, Latvia

1 memorial

Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth

One of Viscount Rothermere's three sons, of which the elder two died in WW1.

Person, Politics & Administration

War dead, WW1

2 memorials

Owen Owen

Founder of a chain of department stores. Born Wales to a farming family. 1860 apprenticed to an uncle at a drapers shop in Bath. 1868 opened his own drapers in Liverpool. Very successful and by 18...

Person, Commerce, Wales

1 memorial

The daughter of the landlord of The Swan public house at Walton-on-Thames. The composer Jerome Kern stopped at the pub while on a Thames river trip and fell in love with her. They married in Walton...

Person, Friend / family, USA

1 memorial

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...

Event, Armed Forces, Tragedy

403 memorials