Awarded the VC for his heroism on 28 October 1918, age 21, while serving in the Northumberland Fusiliers. "When the advance was held up he ran forward firing his Lewis gun from the hip, he captured over 160 in this action. His conspicuous valour and initiative in the face of intense rifle fire was beyond praise. (Casa Van, Italy)". Freemason at: №4246, Garrick Lodge.
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Wilfred Wood, VC
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Freemason VCs - Z6 - Willis, Wood, Wyatt
Richard Raymond Willis, 25 April 1915, Age 38, The Lancashire Fusiliers, Lodg...
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Napoleon Bonaparte
Military and political leader. Born at Ajaccio, Corsica. He trained as an officer in France and achieved prominence under the first French Republic. He led successful campaigns against the first an...
Person, Armed Forces, Politics & Administration, Seriously Famous, France
8 memorials
Admiral, Sir John Colpoys, GCB
Naval officer. While attempting to control the 1797 Spithead mutiny, Colpoys ordered the shooting of his own crew thus causing the death of several men (we can't find an exact number). Not surpri...
1 memorial
Chas. A. Franklin
Resident of the Central Ward, Hendon who served and died in WW1.
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
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1 memorial
1 memorial
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Samuel Joseph
It seems he was a member of the Phrenological Society which makes some sense for a portrait sculptor.
2 memorials
War dead, WW2
1 memorial
Saki
W1, Mortimer Street, 97
Hector Hugh Munro, alias Saki, 1870 - 1916, short story writer, lived here. English Heritage
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John Howard
Prime Minister of Australia. Born Sydney, Australia.
1 memorial
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