The first portable automatic machine gun. In the 1888 photograph the Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) is firing with Maxim standing behind.
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Maxim Gun
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Sir Hiram Maxim and his gun
Greater London Council Sir Hiram Maxim, 1840 - 1916, inventor and engineer d...
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Major Robert Rogers
Born in Massachusetts to Irish immigrants. Aged 8 his family moved to New Hampshire. Served in the British Army fighting the French and the native Americans. He created the Rogers' Rangers, who wer...
1 memorial
Bengal Artillery 2nd Company 3rd Battalion
Part of the force commanded by Havelock.
1 memorial
T. C. Thornton
Employed at the Streatham bus garage. Served and was killed in WW1.
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
War served, WW1
1 memorial
1st Polish Independent Parachute Brigade
A brigade under the command of Major General Stanislaw Sosabowski, created in Scotland, with the exclusive mission to drop into occupied Poland in order to help liberate the country. The British go...
1 memorial
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