Person    | Male  Born 1889  Died 23/10/1916

Richard McFadden

Categories: Armed Forces, Sport / Games

Countries: France, Scotland

War dead, WW1 i

Commemorated on a memorial as having died in WW1.

Footballer and soldier. Born in Cambuslang, Lanarkshire. He started his football career in the Northern League with Blyth in 1910, moving to Wallsend Park Villa. In May 1911, he joined Clapton Orient. In 1912 he rescued an 11-year-old boy from the River Lea, for which he received a medal from the Mayor of Hackney, and he later risked his life when rescuing a man from a burning building. At the outbreak of WW1 he joined the 17th Battalion Middlesex Regiment, the 'Footballers' Battalion'. He was promoted to the rank of Company Sergeant Major and was fatally wounded by a shell blast whilst leading his men near Serre-lès-Puisieux.

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Richard McFadden

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Leyton war memorial

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Sir Tasker Watkins

Sir Tasker Watkins

Soldier and judge. Born at 9 Station Terrace, Nelson, Glamorgan. In Normandy, he led an assault on a German machine-gun post. After all the other officers were killed in the approach, he continued ...

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1 memorial
E. Frier

E. Frier

Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.

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War served, WW1
1 memorial
C. Greenfield

C. Greenfield

Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.

Person, Armed Forces

War served, WW1
1 memorial
siege of Cadiz

siege of Cadiz

Part of the Peninsular Wars which were part of the Napoleonic Wars.  The French besieged Cadiz, where the Spanish government was based, and the Portuguese and British assisted the Spanish.  On  22 ...

Event, Armed Forces, Spain

1 memorial