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People of Malta

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On 15 April 1942 King George VI awarded the people of Malta the George Cross to honour their endurance of the Siege. The picture show the GC being presented by Governor General and Commander-in-Chief in Malta, Field Marshal John Gort, VC.

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People of Malta

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Malta Siege

The solid block of stone for the memorial came from Gozo, one of the three in...

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H. M. Bateman

H. M. Bateman

Cartoonist. Born Henry Mayo Bateman at Moss Vale, Sutton Forest, New South Wales, Australia. His family moved to Britain in 1888, where he studied at Westminster School of Art and Goldsmiths' Colle...

Person, Art, Australia, Malta

1 memorial
Lilian Charity Say

Lilian Charity Say

Councillor on the Bethnal Green Housing Committee in 1952. Lilian Charity Jacob was born on 9 January 1908, one of the nine children of James Henry Jacob (1874-1935) and Elizabeth Jacob née Lock (...

Person, Politics & Administration, Malta

1 memorial
Flight Lieutenant Henry Forster Withy

Flight Lieutenant Henry Forster Withy

Henry Forster Withy was born on 10 October 1910 in West Hartlepool, Durham, the elder son of Henry Daubeny Withy (1882-1914) and Emily Edith Withy née Wilson (1879-1932). His birth was registered i...

Person, Armed Forces, Commerce, Malta

War dead, WW2
1 memorial
William Patrick Seal Moon

William Patrick Seal Moon

William Patrick Seal Moon was born on 18 October 1914 in Malta, the eldest of the four children of William James Moon (1891-1967) and Sarah Queenie Moon née Ruark (1894-1954). At the time of his bi...

Person, Emergency Services, Malta

War dead non-military, WW2
1 memorial
Sir William Reid

Sir William Reid

A member of the Executive Committee for the Great Exhibition 1851.Born Kinglassie, Fifeshire. Soldier, Fellow of the Royal Society (of Science) and Governor of Bermuda, Barbados & Malta.

Person, Armed Forces, Politics & Administration, Science, Caribbean Islands, Malta, Scotland

1 memorial

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Robert Besley

Robert Besley

Alderman and Lord Mayor of London, 1869 - 70. Typefounder and and punchcutter, credited with cutting the first Clarendon, a fat typeface with thick slabs, the first ever registered typeface.  The ...

Person, Lord Mayor, Politics & Administration

2 memorials
Anne Moffat

Anne Moffat

Anne Moffat was born on 25 December 1956 in Lanark, Scotland, the daughter of Thomas Anderson Moffat (1918-1992) and Anne Moffat née Chambers (1922-2002). She was a communications manager for Girl...

Person, Tragedy, Scotland

2 memorials
Queen Elizabeth II

Queen Elizabeth II

Born 17 Bruton Street, to the Duke and Duchess of York. For information on where she was brought up see Byron Statue. When she was 10 her father became King George VI (on the abdication of his brot...

Person, Royalty, Seriously Famous

126 memorials
Great Fire of London

Great Fire of London

Started on a Sunday morning. After 4 days the destruction included: - an area of one and a half miles by a half mile - 87 churches - 13,200 houses - only 6 people are recorded as having died (but ...

Event, Tragedy

55 memorials
Pasqua Rosée

Pasqua Rosée

Manservant brought to London from Ottoman Smyrna by his employer, Daniel Edwards, a dealer in coffee and other goods from the east. Rosée is variously described as being Armenian or from Sicily. Ro...

Person, Commerce, Armenia, Italy

1 memorial