More than 230,000 people died, 153 being British.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Tsunami in the Indian Ocean
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Tsunami memorial
120-tonne block of granite, 4.1 metre cube with a corner removed. According...
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Robert Wright
For more information about this hero click on the picture of his plaque.
1 memorial
Spencer Perceval
Prime Minister - and the only one, so far, to have been assassinated. Born Audley Square (now a car park). Appointed by George III as PM in 1809. Shot in the lobby of the House of Commons, at about...
3 memorials
Alan Stewart
An accountant from Auckland, killed in the Ladbroke Grove rail disaster, aged 28. Andrew Behan has kindly carried out further research: Allan John Stewart was born in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotlan...
1 memorial
John Humffreys Parry
Born Flintshire, Wales. Came to London in 1807 to train as a lawyer at the Temple. Called to the bar in 1811. But he was unsuccessful in this profession and turned to writing about Welsh history...
1 memorial
Gavin McMahon
United Kingdom citizen who died in the terrorist attacks in America on 11 September 2001. Gavin McMahon was born on 25 March 1966 in County Durham, the son of Terence T. McMahon (b.1933) and Linda...
1 memorial
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Elizabeth David
Cookery writer. Born as Elizabeth Gwynne into a wealthy family. Travelled in Europe and around the Mediterranean, spending some years in Cairo, where she married in 1944. Returned to England in 194...
1 memorial
HM Office of Works
Summarising Wikipedia: The Office of Works (the King's Works) was responsible only for royal properties (1378–1832). This became the Office of Woods, Forest, Land Revenues and Works (1832–1852). Th...
1 memorial
Bomber Harris
WC2, Strand
Unveiled by the Queen Mother on 31 May 1992, the 50th anniversary of the first Allied 1,000 bomber raid on 30 May/31 May 1942. Actually ...
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Florence Booth
Born in Monmouthshire as Florence Eleanor Soper (her father having the odd first name of 'Isabell'). Joined the Salvation Army in 1880 and met Bramwell through his sister Catherine, marrying him in...
1 memorial
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