This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
William D. Ripley
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City and Midland Bank - WW1
Statues flank this central panel. The bases of both are inscribed: Albert Tof...
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Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir John Maitland Salmond, GCB, CMG, CVO, DSO & Bar
John Maitland Salmond was born on 17 July 1881 the youngest of the five children of Major-General Sir William Salmond (1840-1932) and Emma Mary Hoyle Salmond née Hoyle (1849-1923). (His mother's ma...
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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Charles William Martin
Killed as a result of a 5 January 1941 air raid on St Matthias Square.
Royal Socity of Chemistry
Formed as a merger of the Chemical Society, the Royal Institute of Chemistry, the Faraday Society and the Society for Analytical Chemistry. It carries out research, publishes journals, books and da...
Raymond Chandler
Novelist. Born in Chicago, Illinois. After his father abandoned the family, his mother moved him to Britain to further his education, At Dulwich College. He worked for a while at the Admiralty, but...
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Selfridges
Department store created by Harry Selfridge. The flagship store opened on 15 March 1909. In 1951 it was acquired by Lewis's and then in 1965 by the Sears Group. In 2003 the chain was acquired by Ga...
London Docklands Development Corporation
We did not initially recognise this logo, on at least 8 plaques in the Surrey Docks area, and maybe others elsewhere. We tried Google's image search and the results made us laugh; being an array of...
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