Killed in action or died of wounds or disease.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Royal Marines killed in South Africa and China
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Royal Marines
The statue and the reliefs are by Jones with Jackson responsible for the arch...
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Mo Farah
Track and field athelete. Born Somalia. Moved to Britain aged 8 to join his father in Hounslow.
Those from Indian Sub-continent, Africa & Caribbean who fought with Britain in the 2 world wars
5 million volunteers.
Group, Africa, Caribbean Islands, India, Indian Sub-continent, Pakistan
George Padmore
International activist and renowned pan Africanist (favouring the unification of Africa). Born Malcolm Ivan Meredith Nurse in Trinidad. Travelled a lot. but settled in London in 1935. Worked as ...
Person, Nationalism, Politics & Administration, Africa, Caribbean Islands, Ghana
Lieutenant Nicholas James Redvers John Townshend Durham
Nicholas James Redvers John Townshend Durham was born on 13 January 1905 the son of James Andrew Cunningham Durham FSA (1879-1954) and Lady Agnes Elizabeth Audrey Durham née Townshend (1870-1955). ...
John Blanke
Trumpeter in the courts of Henry VII and Henry VIII. He probably came to England as one of the African attendants of Catherine of Aragon in 1501, and is one of the earliest recorded black people in...
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D. H. Lawrence
Novelist and poet (also painter). Born Eastwood, Nottinghamshire. Died Vence, France. Novels include: Lady Chatterley's Lover, Sons and Lovers, Women in Love.
Herman Wallace
In 1972 a prison guard was murdered in Angola Prison, Louisiana, USA, where Herman Wallace, Robert King, and Albert Woodfox were prisoners. Wallace and Woodfox were convicted of the murder; King w...
Person, Law, Race Issues, Tragedy, USA
First match of association football
The first official game played to Football Association rules took place in Battersea Park. It was played between teams selected by the President (Arthur Pember) and the Secretary (Ebenezer Cobb Mor...
King George III
Born in St James's Square (not the public garden, one of the houses, obviously). Crowned in 1760, the first monarch since Queen Anne to be truly British. It was during his rule that many of the Ame...
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