Temporary portable harbours developed by the United Kingdom in WW2 for the rapid offloading of vehicles onto beaches. They were used mainly during the Normandy landings in June 1944. Designed by Major Allan Beckett, from an idea by Winston Churchill, who was determined never to repeat the disastrous 1915 amphibious landings on beaches during the Gallipoli Campaign.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Mulberry Harbours
Major Allan H Beckett MBE RE (1914 - 2005) lived here (1919 - 1939). His engi...
London unit which served in WW1. The 7th (City of London) Battalion had no traditional name, but was nicknamed the 'Shiny Seventh' because it wore brass buttons in a Regiment whose other battalion...
Resident of Willesden who volunteered and died in the Anglo Boer War, 1899-1900.
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