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W. Smith

War dead, WW1 i

Commemorated on a memorial as having died in WW1.

W. Smith
Name on one of the main panels of the East Ham WW1 memorial.

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W. Smith

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East Ham war memorial

This is a substantial monument, often described, understandably, as a cenotap...

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War dead, WW1
1 memorial
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Lance Corporal Alexander Sylvester Cownden

Lance-Corporal in the Royal West Kent Regiment. The memorial states that he won the Military Medal and was killed in action at the age of 23. We requested our colleague Andrew Behan to research th...

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John Dixon

John Dixon

Civil Engineer from Newcastle. Freemason. His brother, Waynman, was an engineer and an Egyptologist so was used on the project to bring Cleopatra's Needle to London. There is a legend that Waynman ...

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E. Derbyshire
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1 memorial
G. A. Bennet

G. A. Bennet

Limehouse man who died in WW1.

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War dead, WW1
1 memorial

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Martin van Buren

Martin van Buren

W1, Stratford Place, 7

Ornamental Passions have a good post about the grand mansion at the end of this 1770s development.

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J. M. Spooner

J. M. Spooner

Limehouse man who died in WW1.

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1 memorial
Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath

Poet, novelist and short story writer. Born Massachusetts. Came to England and met Ted Hughes at a celebration for a poetry magazine in Cambridge. Married him on 16 June 1956 at St George the Marty...

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Greathead shield at Bank

Greathead shield at Bank

EC2, Bank station, pedestrian tunnel between DLR and Waterloo & City line

We must have walked through this arch many times without properly seeing it.  We thank Geoff Marshall of Londonist for enlightening us in...

2 subjects commemorated, 2 creators
Jenny Lind

Jenny Lind

Singer. Born Johanna Maria Lind at 40 Mästersamuelsgränd, Stockholm. Her operatic fame began when she sang the role of Agathe in Der Freischütz. She was appointed court singer and made a member of ...

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1 memorial