"... our sailors who upheld "Britain's sure shield" 1914 - 1918."
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
WW1 sailors
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Thimble shelters - north
The navy has been referred to as "Britain's sure shield" since, at least, Tra...
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R. Fus. (C. of L. Regt) 30th Batn. - Reserve
Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regt) 30th Batn. - Reserve
1 memorial
West Ham United
London based football team, known as 'The Hammers'. Founded by Arnold Hills (1857-1927), MD of Thames Ironworks, who also founded the Oriolet Hospital and Convalescent Home. This club was original...
7 memorials
Inner London Education Authority
When LCC was replaced with the GLC the body responsible for education became ILEA. Disliked by Thatcher, ILEA survived a number of attempts to abolish it but succumbed in 1990. Thereafter the loc...
1 memorial
Members of Kew Guild and staff of Royal Botanic Gdns Kew lost in WW1, WW2
From the Kew Guild: "The Kew Guild was founded in 1893, as an offshoot of the Kew Mutual Improvement Society (itself created in 1871), with an intention of uniting past and present “Kewites” by mea...
1 memorial
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Grace Griffiths
Her 1944 poem Doodlebugs was included in an audio compilation entitled 'The Best of Second World War Poetry' produced in 1993 and in the 1999 book 'Shadows of war : British women's poetry of the Se...
1 memorial
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