Lay brother at London Charterhouse. Taken Taken to Newgate Prison, chained and left to starve to death.
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Walter Peerson
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E. Gordon Brettell
Flight Lieutenant Edward Gordon Brettell DFC was born on 19 March 1915, the eldest of the three children of Vivian Brettell (1882-1949) and Eileen Isabella Brettell née Carroll (1887-1979). His bir...
Thomas Bowyer
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Sir Harry Vane (the younger)
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John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester
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Bishop Edmund Bonner
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Constance Spry
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Crown Agents
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SHAEF, Supreme Headquarters of the Allied Expeditionary Forces, WW2
Much of the planning for D-Day was carried out at Norfolk House. Eisenhower arrived there in January 1944 to take on the role of Supreme Allied Commander. c.April 1944 SHAEF moved out to Camp Grif...
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