This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Thos. Ponton
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Hendon war memorial - WW1
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Major John Russell Wardle
Major in the (Queen's Own Royal) Glasgow Yeomanry. Killed in action at Gallipoli and believed to be buried in Pink Farm Cemetery, Helles, Turkey, where there is a memorial to him. John Russell War...
Rear-Admiral, Sir William Fairbrother Carroll, KCB
Naval officer. Born Ireland, Co. Wicklow. "Royal naval biography; or, Memoirs of ..." has a full biography. Lieut-Governor of Greenwich Hospital, where he died. The Greenwich monument has his n...
A. A. Dowding
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
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Greater London Council
Replaced the LCC. The GLC was abolished, some say, because Mrs Thatcher could not abide its left-wing politics, nor its leader, Ken Livingstone. On its 50th anniversary Diamond Geezer posted a goo...
William Shakespeare
Born and died in Stratford-upon-Avon. His birth date is usually given as the 23rd, the same date as his death, but all that is actually known is that he was baptised 3 days later, on the 26th. Even...
Queen Elizabeth's Oak
SE10, Greenwich Park
The old tree is presumably gradually being decomposed by beetles and the like. The new tree may be the one to the far right of our picture.
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