forty one players and staff of Clapton Orient Football Club served with the 17th Bn Middlesex Regiment (The Footballers' Battalion) during WW1.
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players and staff of Clapton Orient Football Club who served in WW1
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Leyton war memorial
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G. E. Webb
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
W. Gillham
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
Sir Thomas Wyatt
Born near Maidstone, son of the poet of the same name. Opposed the marriage of Queen Mary to Phillip of Spain, he marched on London in 1554 with 4,000 men of Kent but, failing, on 6 February, to g...
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J. H. Coggs
Resident of Willesden who volunteered and died in the Anglo Boer War, 1899-1900.
Leonard Huxley
Writer. His works include biographies of his father Thomas Henry Huxley and Charles Darwin. Father of Aldous and Julian Huxley, the unidentified child in the photograph is presumably one of his sons.
Arthur Waley
Poet, translator and orientalist. He never actually visited China nor Japan.
Herbert Beerbohm Tree
Actor and theatre manager. Born at 2 Pembridge Villas. Max Beerbohm was his half-brother and cousin. Founded Her Majesty's Theatre in 1897 and ran it until his death. Founded the Royal Academy of D...
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