James Beaconsfield Nightingale was born on 19 April 1892 in Horley, Surrey, the fourth of the seven children of James Nightingale (1863-1941) and Alice Mary Nightingale née Potter (1861-1928). His ...
The Hampton Wick Remembers website gives much information about this soldier. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission's website confirms that he died, aged 19 years on 5 May 1918 and is buried in Pl...
Full name: Dr Alphonse Rene Le Mire de Normandy. Born Rouen, France. He completed a medical course but then devoted himself to chemistry. Came to England in the late 1830s/early 1840s, initially li...
He was a second patrol lieutenant in the 5th Dragoon Guards during the Second Boer War. On the 30th October 1899 he took out from Ladysmith a small patrol of the 5th Dragoon Guards. They came unde...
Ballet dancer. Born Rudolf Khametovich Nureyev on a Trans-Siberian train near Irkutsk, Siberia, while his mother was travelling to Vladivostok. In 1958, he joined the Kirov (later renamed as Mariin...
The allied campaign in WW2 for the liberation of North West Europe including the Normandy D-Day landings.
George Orwell was born in Bengal as Eric Arthur Blair, his father was a British colonial civil servant. Joined the Indian imperial police in Burma but left in 1927 and decided to become a writer. ...
Person, Journalism / Publishing, Literature, Seriously Famous, TV & Radio, Bengal, Burma, France, India, Spain
Marc Maison has a whole page on this firm: "The Val Osne company was an art foundry founded in 1835 by Jean Pierre Andre Victor .... Its original purpose was for manufacturing street furniture and ...
Poet and soldier. Born Wilfred Edward Salter Owen, near Oswestry, Shropshire. In 1915 he enlisted in the Artists Rifles Officers' Training Corps, eventually being commissioned as a second lieutenan...
Person, Armed Forces, Poetry, Seriously Famous, France, Scotland
Percy John Owlett was born on 10 June 1885 in Battersea, Surrey (now Greater London) the fifth of the six children of Benjamin James Owlett (1852-1918) and Mary Ann Owlett (c.1845-1908). His birth ...
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