The allied campaign in WW2 for the liberation of North Africa
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Operation Torch
Commemorated ati
Operation Torch & Operation Overlord
Norfolk House In this building, 24 June 1942 - 8 November 1942, general of t...
Other Subjects
Lieutenant John Augustus Harman
John Augustus Harman was the eldest of the four children of John Eustace Harman (1861-1927) and Ethel Frances Harman née Birch (1863-1934). His birth was registered in the 3rd quarter of 1893 in th...
P. C. Bernard
Employed at the Holloway bus/tram garage - Pemberton Gardens. Served and was killed in WW1.
Ernest Beatie
First Lieutenant Ernest David Beatie was born on 17 June 1914 in Albany, Dougherty County, Georgia, USA, the second of the four children of David Leftwich Beatie (1878-1945) and Catherine Pauline B...
Royal Engineers
A corps of the British Army. It provides military engineering and other technical support to the British Armed Forces. Known as 'sappers' apparently from the French 'sappe' meaning 'spadework' or '...
Sir John Jennings
Naval officer. Governor of Greenwich Hospital 1720 to his death, there.
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London Coliseum
WC2, St Martin's Lane, London Coliseum
The SWET plaque is outside. To see the bust, walk to the back of the foyer, turn right, through a door, the bust is immediately on your l...
Cyril Davies
Musician. Born on 23 January 1932 at St Mildred's, 15 Hawthorn Drive, Willowbank, Denham, Buckinghamshire, he was the younger son of William Albert Davies (1898-1964) and Margaret May Davies née Jo...
Rupert Bear
Children's comic strip character. Created by the artist Mary Tourtel. In 1935, when her eyesight started failing the stories and illustrations were taken over by Alfred Bestall. An annual of Rupert...
Aldersgate
Sometimes used as a prison and to display the remains of gruesomely executed traitors. Taken down and rebuilt in 1617, damaged in the Great Fire of 1666 but not finally removed until 1761, to impro...