Killed in action or died of wounds or disease.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Royal Marines killed in South Africa and China
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Royal Marines
The statue and the reliefs are by Jones with Jackson responsible for the arch...
Other Subjects
Patrick and Pauline Weil
Husband and wife from Sierra Leone, who made their home in London. Deceased in or before 2022.
Abolition of slavery
The British abolition of slavery came in two parts: first the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act became law on 25 March 1807, which left slavery itself still permitted until the Slavery Abolition Act...
Event, Race Issues, Social Welfare, Africa, Australia, Bermuda, Caribbean Islands, Indian Sub-continent, Jamaica, Sri Lanka
Cesar Picton
Former slave and businessman. Born in Senegal, (his birth year is approximate). At the age of about six, he was bought and taken to England, where he was presented as a servant to Sir John Phillipp...
Lieutenant Nicholas James Redvers John Townshend Durham
Nicholas James Redvers John Townshend Durham was born on 13 January 1905 the son of James Andrew Cunningham Durham FSA (1879-1954) and Lady Agnes Elizabeth Audrey Durham née Townshend (1870-1955). ...
Ruth First
South African freedom fighter. Born Johannesburg. Married Slovo in 1949; the writer Gillian Slovo is their daughter. Killed by a parcel bomb addressed to her in Mozambique where she was living in e...
Person, Journalism / Publishing, Nationalism, Race Issues, Africa, South Africa
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