5 million volunteers.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Those from Indian Sub-continent, Africa & Caribbean who fought with Britain in the 2 world wars
Commemorated ati
Memorial Gates
Designed by Liam O'Connor as a reduced-scale version of Lutyens' monument at ...
Other Subjects
Field Marshal Allenby
Army officer. Born Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby at Brackenhurst Hall, near Southwell, Nottinghamshire. He fought in the second Boer war and in World War I his command captured Vimy Ridge. Later he l...
Alfred Beit
Co-founder and funder (with Sir Julius Wernher) of the Royal School of Mines building. Born Hamburg, learnt the diamond trade in Amsterdam and went to Kimberley where he met Wernher and Cecil Rhod...
Person, Industry, Philanthropy, Race Issues, Africa, Germany, South Africa
Alec Dickson
Community educationist. Born Alexander Graeme Dickson at Duxhill Lodge, Ruislip. He served in Africa in World War II, where he began to formulate his ideas for mass education. He returned in 1948 a...
David Livingstone
Explorer, missionary, writer and medic. Born at Blantyre, just south of Glasgow. Qualified as a doctor in order to go as a medical missionary to China. Got the source of the Nile wrong and failed t...
Person, Exploring, Religion, Seriously Famous, Africa, Scotland
Sir Francis Galton
Biostatistician, human geneticist and eugenicist. Born at The Larches, Sparkbrook, Birmingham, a half-cousin of Charles Darwin. An enthusiastic traveller, particularly in Africa. Darwin's publicati...
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Goat in Boots
Pubs History says: "This pub was called the Goat until 1725 when the name was extended to Goat in Boots. Fulham Road was previously New Brompton Road, e.g. in 1851; and earlier called Little Chelse...
King Charles I
Born Fife. Until the age of 11 he was only the 'spare' but then his 18-year old brother Henry died (probably of typhoid) and Charles became the heir, ascending the throne in 1625 on the death of hi...
St Saviour's war memorial
SE1, Borough High Street, 32 - 34, a pub (name keeps changing)
The bronze statue on the plinth is of an infantryman tramping through mud. The front of the plinth shows a soldier in classical costume a...
Bruce Bairnsfather
SW7, Sterling Street, 1
Greater London Council Bruce Bairnsfather, 1888 - 1959, cartoonist, lived here.
Thomas Honey
Role on the lost expedition: Officer on SS Terror. See John Franklin.
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