The equivalent of the UK Ministry of Defence has a special section, named in the Ministry’s title, to deal with Veterans & War Victims – indeed there is a – set up for this very purpose, similar to the MoD’s own Veteran’s Advisory & Pensions Committees, but seemingly offering wider range of services for Veterans, Widow(er)s & Orphans all under one roof, so to speak.
Credit for this entry to: John Hartley
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Ministere de la Defense et des Anciens Combattants - France
The campaign to bomb civilians was so controversial that the bombers were giv...
Incorporated by royal charter in 1854, possibly on 7th April. Still operating in 1928.
Campaigning working-man and temperance advocate. Son of a blacksmith from Princes Risborough, he came to Bermondsey in the 1830s and worked in the leather trade. Campaigned for political reform, th...
Rosehaugh Stanhope Developments was responsible for a number of high-profile developments in the City, such as Broadgate. The Independent's 1992 report on the failure of the Rosehaugh company descr...
The picture shows the first premises of this organisation, before they moved in, at the corner of Falmouth Street and Maryland Street in Stratford.  Started by a group of men at Stratford Railway W...
In 1656 he founded almshouses in Palmer’s Passage for six poor old men and six poor old women together with a school for the education of twenty boys. Old maps show these almshouses running most of...
Comments are provided by Facebook, please ensure you are signed in to see them