Awarded the VC for his heroism on 16 August 1917, age 21, while serving in the King’s Royal Rifle Corps. "Enemy machine gun fire from a blockhouse was holding up the battalion’s advance. With four men he rushed forward firing into an opening in the blockhouse. Firing ceased. Seven machine guns and 45 prisoners were captured. (Ypres, Belgium)". Freemason at: â„–80, St John’s Lodge.
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Edward Cooper, VC
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Freemason VCs - N4 - Collings-Wells, Cooper, Cruickshank
John Stanhope Collings-Wells, 22-27 March 1918, Aged 37, The Bedfordshire Reg...
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Cecil W. Smith
Resident of the Central Ward, Hendon who served and died in WW1.
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Flight Lieutenant Richard Carew Reynell
Pilot. Born at Reynella, South Australia. He came to England in 1929 (or 1921, see below) and studied at Oxford. He became a test pilot for Hawker's and in 1940Â was attached to 43 Squadron. On the ...
1 memorial
Private Frederick William Pay
Frederick William Pay was born in 1883 in Gunnersbury, Middlesex (now Greater London), the eldest of the five children of William Thomas Pay (1858-1912) and Sarah Ann Pay née Pearce (1859-1930). Hi...
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
War dead, WW2
1 memorial
23rd Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Infantry regiment. It was founded to oppose King James II and the forthcoming war with France, and saw action in many later conflicts. During World War I, several writers, including Siegfried Sasso...
1 memorial
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