Soldier. Born George Thomas Dorrell in Paddington. Wikipedia informs that he joined the army at the age of fifteen and first served in the Second Boer War. On 1st September 1914, at Néry, France, d...
Private George Arthur Down was born on 8 June 1884 in Putney. He was the eldest of the six children of William Down (1859-1943) and Emily Elizabeth Down née Hunter (1859-1947). His father was a boo...
Gunner. Number 153680 of the Royal Garrison Artillery. Buried in plot X.A.9 of Bienvilliers Military Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France. His brother Harry is also commemorated on the monument.
Sub-Conductor. Number 2563 of the Royal Ordnance Corps. Buried in plot IV.D.30 of Aubigny Communal Cemetery Extension. His brother Alfred is also commemorated on the memorial.
Thomas Alfred Drabble was the eldest of the four children of Alfred Samuel Charles Drabble (1863-1937) and Jane Drabble née Curley (1863-1915), whose birth was registered in the 3rd quarter of 1890...
Soldier. Born Job Henry Charles Drain in Barking, Essex. In WW1Â he was a driver in the 37th Battery, Royal Field Artillery. On 26 August 1914 at Le Cateau, France, he and another driver saved two B...
Soldier. Born Alfred George Blake in Stepney. As a corporal in the 8th battalion of the Rifle Brigade he was in a patrol reconnoitring the German lines near La Brique, France. The group was spotted...
Electrical engineer and social reformer promoting family planning and eugenics. Born in Paris. As an engineer, he invented the phase-shifting transformer, and was co-founder of the Institute of Phy...
Wife of Henry Reynolds-Moreton, Third Earl of Ducie. There is no portrait and virtually no other information available about her, so we have used a picture of the monument to her in Tortworth Churc...
Artist and writer. Born Paris. Punch cartoonist. 1894 wrote the novel Trilby, from which comes the term "Svengali".  In Hampstead lived at 4 Holly Mount, moved to Gangmoor House facing Whitestone P...
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