Andrew Behan has kindly carried out some research on this soldier:
Squadron Quartermaster Corporal. Born Braintree, Essex, the son of Edward George Bright and Phyliss Ruby Bright, née Layzell. He married Marion E Rees in 1967 in Windsor, Berkshire and they had a daughter and a son. He was the standard bearer in the Blues & Royals of the Household Cavalry when he was involved in the Hyde Park bomb attack dying of his injuries three days later, aged 36 years.
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Staff Corporal (SQMC) Roy John Bright
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Hyde Park bomb
{On 20 July 1982 at this spot, a terrorist bomb was exploded as The Queen's L...
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War dead, WW1
1 memorial
H.M.S. Victory VI
During WW1 Crystal Palace was used as a training establishment for the Royal Navy. It was officially known as H.M.S. Victory VI, and informally as HMS Crystal Palace. 125,000 officers and men were ...
1 memorial
Corporal Frederick John Russell Fishley
Frederick John Russell Fishley was born 11 May 1887 in West Brompton, London, the eldest of the four children of Frederick Davay Fishley (1865-1915) and Sarah Jane Fishley née Russell (1866-1932). ...
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Machine Gun Corps
A corps of the British army. It was formed in response to the need for more effective use of machine guns on the Western Front in World War I. It had four branches (Infantry, Cavalry, Motor and Hea...
2 memorials
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Foundation stone of the Jewin Welsh Church
EC1, Fann Street, 70, Jewin Welsh Church
We are immensely grateful to our Welsh consultant, David Hopkins, who took the time, not just to translate, but also to correctly punctua...
1 creator
Tom Goodway
Poplar councillor imprisoned during the 1921 rates protest.
1 memorial
1 memorial
2 memorials
24th (County of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (The Queen's)
London unit which served in WW1. Their Wikipedia page gives details about the origins of the battalion, their battle honours and how in 1937 the battalion reverted to the Queen's Royal Regiment (W...
2 memorials
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