HMS Victory was built in the Old Single Dock in Chatham's Royal Dockyard. From "she would gain renown leading fleets in the American War of Independence, the French Revolutionary War and the Napoleonic War. In 1805 she achieved lasting fame as the flagship of Vice-Admiral Nelson in Britain's greatest naval victory, the defeat of the French and Spanish at the Battle of Trafalgar. ... In 1922 she was saved for the nation and placed permanently into dry dock where she remains today." In Portsmouth.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
HMS Victory
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Hurlingham Yacht Club
1922 is the year that the Club took on its current name, though we don't know...
Sir William Beatty
Sacred to the memory of Sir William Beatty, MD, LCP, FRS, surgeon, Royal Navy...
Other Subjects
Rifleman G. W. Jones
B/393, Rifle Brigade. Age 31. The day is past & over. We come, O, Lord, to thee.
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Sapper McLaren
Royal Engineer killed by an exploding bomb while assisting in the attempt to disarm it. Andrew Behan has kindly carried out some research on this man: Sapper Edward McLaren was born about 1918 in ...
War dead, WW2
1 memorial
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Private Edward Cox
Edward Cox was born circa 1871 in Deptford, Kent (now Greater London). He was the third of the nine children of George and Elizabeth Cox. In the 1881 census he is shown as aged 10 years and living...
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
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