Marshal of the RAF. Born Hungerford. Served in WWI first as a motorcycle despatch rider and then joined the Royal Flying Corps and became a pilot. Promoted rapidly and well-decorated. Chief of the Air Staff, 1940 - 1945, he went with Churchill to the major conferences. Promoted to Marshal of the Royal Air Force in 1944. One of the architects of victory in the WW2. Died near Chichester.
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Lord Charles Portal
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J. Howes
Resident of Willesden who volunteered and died in the Anglo Boer War, 1899-1900.
War dead, Other war
1 memorial
J. W. Otton, DCM
Employed at the Holloway bus/tram garage - Pemberton Gardens. Served and was killed in WW1.
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Lord Sandberg CBE
Trustee of The Memorial Gates Trust. Michael Graham Ruddock Sandberg was born on 31 May 1927, the youngest of the three children of Gerald Arthur Clifford Sandberg (1882-1954) and Ethel Marian Cli...
1 memorial
J. Adams
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
War served, 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
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War dead, WW1
2 memorials
Sir Raymond Unwin - blue
NW3, North End, Wyldes
In 2022 Philip Broke told us that the plaque on this house is blue not purple. We revisited and we have added our photo here. The blue pl...
2 subjects commemorated
Marshall's - pavement plaque at 76
W7, Uxbridge Road, 76, Tony's Barbers
Jim Marshall OBE, 1923 - 2012, founder of Marshall Amplification
2 subjects commemorated
British Property Federation
From their website: "We represent the interests of all those involved in property ownership and investment. We aim to create the conditions in which the commercial property industry can grow and th...
1 memorial
War dead, WW2
1 memorial
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