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Royal Tank Regiment

Categories: Armed Forces

Tanks were first used in combat at Flers, France, on 15th September 1916. Heavy Section and Heavy Branch Machine Gun Corps, the Tank Corps, Royal Tank Corps and Royal Tank Regiment.

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Royal Tank Regiment

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Royal Tank Regiment Memorial

9 foot bronze. The statues represent a crew from a WW2 Comet tank.

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W. E. Lawrence

W. E. Lawrence

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
Private Frederick Martin

Private Frederick Martin

Frederick Martin was born circa 1916. He was serving as a Private in the Army Catering Corps, service number 911620 and was attached to the Royal Artillery when he died, aged 29 years, on 3 Septemb...

Person, Armed Forces, Burma

War dead, WW2
1 memorial
W. J. Goodwin
War dead, WW2
1 memorial
C. F. Pritchard

C. F. Pritchard

Clive Fleetwood Pritchard was born in 1864 in Canonbury, the eldest of the eight children of Andrew Goring Pritchard (1834-1928) and Marianne Pritchard née Titford (1839-1920). His birth was regist...

Person, Armed Forces, Law, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
S. H. Lewis

S. H. Lewis

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

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William Henry Fall

William Henry Fall

William Henry Thomas Fall was born on 9 August 1879, his birth being registered in the 3rd quarter of 1879 in the St Saviour registration district, Southwark. He was one of the seven children of Th...

Person, Emergency Services

War dead non-military, WW2
1 memorial
Indian Rebellion / Indian Mutiny

Indian Rebellion / Indian Mutiny

A major, but ultimately unsuccessful, uprising in India against the rule of the British East India Company. Also known as the Sepoy Mutiny.

Event, Armed Forces, India

1 memorial
World War 1

World War 1

We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came along at which point it was renamed as World War One or the First World War. But the term was first used in print in 1920...

Event, Armed Forces, Tragedy

402 memorials
St Jude's Institute Football Club

St Jude's Institute Football Club

Boys' football club, based at the St Jude's Institute, a mission hall founded by the Reverend Stanley Bolt, vicar of the local church. The club merged with the Christ Church Rangers, to form the Qu...

Group, Sport / Games

1 memorial
Lord Kinnaird

Lord Kinnaird

Footballer and philanthropist. Born Arthur Fitzgerald Kinnaird in London. Unusually he had double careers in banking and football. He played in nine F.A. cup finals and had the dubious honour of be...

Person, Philanthropy, Politics & Administration, Social Welfare, Sport / Games

1 memorial