French hospital in Bath Street
Founded by royal charter in 1718 to house the poor or infirm of French Huguenot descent. Known as "La Providence". In 1866 the hospital was moved to Victoria Park in Hackney and in 1960 to Rocheste...
1 memorial
French Protestant Church
Persecuted in France, about 50,000 Huguenots fled to Britain where Edward VI granted them asylum. The French Protestant Church of London was established by Royal Charter in 1550. It took over the T...
3 memorials
French Resistance / The Maquis
French resistance fighters in WW2. 470 SOE agents were sent on sabotage missions to occupied France where they fought with networks of French resistance fighters who played an important part in the...
2 memorials
Bernard Cyril Freyberg, VC
Soldier and administrator. Born Bernard Cyril Freyberg in Richmond, Surrey. He spent his early life in New Zealand, and at the outbreak of WWI enlisted in Britain and fought in Gallipoli and France...
Person, Armed Forces, Politics & Administration, France, New Zealand, Turkey
War served, WW1
3 memorials
Cecil Stanley Gaskain
Lieutenant in the Royal Flying Corps. Killed in action aged 25. He is commemorated on the Arras Flying Services Memorial, France.
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Gunner Frederick George Gatward
Frederick George Gatward was born on 20 March 1890 in Bromley-by-Bow, London, the eldest of the eight children of George Frederick Gatward (1868-1922) and Sarah Gatward née Impey (1872-1943). His b...
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Henri Gaudier-Brzeska
Artist and sculptor. Born as Henri Gaudier in Saint-Jean-de-Braye near Orléans. In 1910, he moved to London with Sophie Brzeska, a Polish writer with whom he had an intense relationship, adding her...
1 memorial
David Gestetner
Inventor and industrialist. Born in Csorna, Hungary. Worked in Vienna before emigrating to America. Returned to Vienna where he entered a partnership making equipment for hectographs (an early form...
1 memorial
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