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London Rifle Brigade

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Began as a Volunteer Rifle Corps with the title London Rifle Volunteer Brigade. When the London Regiment was formed in 1908 as part of the new Territorial Force, the LRB became the 5th (City of London) Bn The London Regiment (London Rifle Brigade).  Book of Remembrance held at St Botolphs without Bishopsgate. Their badge is one of the Fovant badges, carved into a hillside near their military camp.

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London Rifle Brigade

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St Botolph's information board

The church has two information boards, both of a standard design, which we wo...

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B. J Camp

B. J Camp

Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.

Person, Armed Forces

War served, WW1
1 memorial
Major William Martin

Major William Martin

See Operation Mincemeat for Major Martin's role in WW2. The body was identified in 1996 as that of Glyndwr Michael, a Welsh homeless man, but the Wikipedia page puts forward a number of other possi...

Fiction, Armed Forces

1 memorial
F. Potter

F. Potter

Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.

Person, Armed Forces

War served, WW1
1 memorial
Admiral, Sir Charles Adam, KCB

Admiral, Sir Charles Adam, KCB

Naval officer.  Governor of Greenwich Hospital, July 1847 until his death.  Died at Greenwich.  

Person, Armed Forces, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
P. C. Garland

P. C. Garland

Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.

Person, Armed Forces

War served, WW1
1 memorial