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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P. T. Fitzpatrick
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
War served, WW1
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Knights Templar
The seal of the Knights incorporated the image of a horse with two riders, the Knights originally being too poor to have a horse each. By papal decree the Knights Templar were dissolved in 1312 a...
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Field Marshal, First Viscount Alanbrooke
Churchill's chief military advisor in WW2. Born (and brought up) in France as Alan Brooke into the Irish aristocracy. Entered the army aged 18 and served in Ireland and India and then in WW1, in ...
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Junius S. Morgan
International banker. In business with George Peabody. Father of J. P. Morgan.
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Paul Nash - NW3
NW3, Eldon Grove, 3
Paul Nash, 1889 - 1946, war artist World Wars I & II, lived and worked here.
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