Person    | Male  Born 7/10/1734  Died 28/3/1801

Sir Ralph Abercromby

Soldier and politician. Born Clackmannanshire, Scotland. Lieutenant-general in the army. Served in the Napoleonic Wars. Died following a hit at a battle, a victory, near Alexandria.

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Sir Ralph Abercromby

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Cleopatra's needle

Pink granite, 68.5 feet high, 186 tons. Vulliamy created, and Youngs cast, th...

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2nd London (County of London) Bde. R.F.A.
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Operation Mincemeat

Operation Mincemeat

Operation Mincemeat was a successful WW2 British deception operation to disguise the 1943 Allied invasion of Sicily. British intelligence obtained an unwanted body and took it to Hackney Mortuary w...

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2 memorials
Private Frank William Glithro

Private Frank William Glithro

Frank William Glithro was born in 1881 in Islington, Middlesex (now Greater London), the third of the seven children of William Glithro (1842-1905) and Elizabeth Margaret Glithro née Snow (1856-191...

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War dead, WW1
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G. Bowers

G. Bowers

Employed at the Streatham bus garage. Served and was killed in WW1.

Person, Armed Forces

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Richard Stannard

Richard Stannard

Sailor. Born Richard Been Stannard. During the evacuation of Namsos in April to May 1940, his ship, HMT Arab survived thirty-one bombing attacks in five days. On one occasion, he and two of his cre...

Person, Armed Forces, Australia, Norway

1 memorial