"Gallant officers and men of the Royal Navy and Marines to the number of about twenty thousand, formerly inmates of the Royal Hospital Greenwich, whose remains were interred in this cemetery between the years 1749 and 1869."
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Sailors buried in the Devonport House burial ground
The names on the monument are of men whose claim to immortality is their role...
A line infantry regiment of the British Army. It had many different titles th...
Born Redruth, Cornwall. He died aged 19 years, killed by the IRA Regent's Par...
6-foot tall and aged 17 the youngest member of his Home Guard unit, Jack was ...
A retirement and nursing home for British soldiers who are unfit for further ...
Crushed under a collapsing wall in Shoe Lane or St Bride Street while fightin...
