The first portable automatic machine gun. In the 1888 photograph the Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) is firing with Maxim standing behind.
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Maxim Gun
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Sir Hiram Maxim and his gun
Greater London Council Sir Hiram Maxim, 1840 - 1916, inventor and engineer d...
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P. Dudley Morris
Resident of the Central Ward, Hendon who served and died in WW1.
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
War dead, WW2
1 memorial
Sailmaker George Thomas Henry Brooks
George Thomas Henry Brooks was born on 29 July 1892 in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, one of the six children of Thomas Henry Brooks (1858-1940) and Mary Ann Elizabeth Brooks née Aston (1861-1940). His bi...
War dead, WW2
1 memorial
T. G. Lumsden
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
War served, WW1
1 memorial
War dead, WW2
1 memorial
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Wreck of the Deutschland
The Deutschland was an iron passenger steamship of the Norddeutscher Lloyd line, built by Caird & Company of Greenock, Scotland in 1866, registered in Hamburg Germany. Built as an emigrant pass...
1 memorial
Frederick Richards
Son of Anne Richards, born in the City of London (possibly Watling Street where he was "many years resident") and by the age of 30 was recorded as a linen draper at the time of the 1851 Census. By ...
1 memorial
Royal Arsenal Riverside
A residential, retail and leisure development of the former Royal Arsenal site in Woolwich.
4 memorials
J. Tagg
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
War served, WW1
1 memorial
Isaac D'Israeli
Author. Not to be confused with Benjamin Disraeli, the novel-writing Prime Minister who was his son. Born at 5 Great St. Helen's London. Died at home at High Wycombe, but his birthplace has two ca...
2 memorials
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