Lost in WW2
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
submarine Orpheus
Commemorated ati
National Submarine War Memorial
The bronze relief depicts, in cross section, the interior of a submarine in w...
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ORP Orzeł
Former submarine in the Polish Navy. ORP stands for Okret Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej (Ship of the Polish Republic).
Arandora Star
Deporting Italian and German prisoners of war the cruise ship was between Liverpool and Canada when it was struck by a torpedo from a German submarine. Of the 734 Italians on board, 486 died. Of th...
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Savoy - feathers
WC2, Savoy Court
In 1903-10 the Savoy Hotel was built by Colcutt and Macmurdo. The magnificently Art Deco Savoy Theatre is in the western section. The sho...
Sir Reginald Rowe
Wrote the forward to the 1942 biography of Octavia Hill by E. Moberly Bell. The Improved Tenements Association was set up in 1900. From The London Journal: "As a concession to the societies, and t...
Tom Baker
W1, Berwick Street, 83-84
"London County Council"? We don't think so. A Sir Tom Baker has a bespoke tailoring business around the corner at 4 D’Arblay Street, wher...
Peter Vanderbank
Engraver. Probably born Paris. Came to London in 1674. Died at his brother's in Hertfordshire.
RAF POWs lost in Borneo
Members of the Royal Air Force who died by the actions of their captors whilst prisoners of war in Sandakan - Ranau, N. Borneo, 1943 - 45.
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