Person    | Female  Died 17/9/1940

Mary Wright

Categories: Tragedy

War dead non-military, WW2 i

Commemorated on a memorial as being a civilian who was killed in WW2. Includes mercantile marines and emergency services personnel.

Mary Wright

Killed in the Camberwell Green air-raid, aged 18.

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk

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Mary Wright

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Wedding party WW2 air raid

{Plaque on the upright element:} In memory of the people of Camberwell who di...

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Great fire of Tooley Street

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1 memorial
David Leys

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1 memorial
Solomon Tozer

Solomon Tozer

Role on the lost expedition: Royal marine on SS Terror. See John Franklin.

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1 memorial

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St James's Gardens, W11

St James's Gardens, W11

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Girdlers' Hall

Girdlers' Hall

EC2, Basinghall Avenue

The current building, 1961, was designed by C Ripley.

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Giltspur Street compter

A prison for debtors. The picture is by George Shepherd, brother of Thomas.

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Southwark Council

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The London Borough of Southwark was created as an amalgamation of the Metropolitan Boroughs of Southwark, Camberwell and Bermondsey. Southwark council annually invites proposals for new plaques fro...

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Imperial Hotel - statue 06 - Drake

Imperial Hotel - statue 06 - Drake

WC1, Russell Square

This statue is surely modelled on the Boehm statue of Drake erected at Tavistock with copies at Plymouth and elsewhere.

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