Naval officer. Â 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). Â Not surprisingly his men refused to serve under him again and he was removed from active duty, although this might voluntarily have been in train anyway due to ill health. Â Governor of Greenwich Hospital, 1816 to his death.
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Admiral, Sir John Colpoys, GCB
The names on the monument are of men whose claim to immortality is their role...
Charles Roy Robinson was born on 11 March 1918 in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, the youngest of the nine children of George Robinson (1872-1954) and Elizabeth Harvey Robinson née Johnson (1873-1949). His bi...
Resident of the West Ward, Hendon who served and died in WW1.
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