Awarded the VC for his heroism on 24 August 1916, age 43, while serving in the Scout Corps, 2nd South African Mounted Brigade. "Having withdrawn to a new position he found one of his wounded men had been left behind. Unmindful of personal danger he succeeded in reaching Corporal Bowker and [carried] him back. (Mlali, German East Africa)". Freemason at: â„–2685, Concordia Lodge.
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William Anderson Bloomfield, VC
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Freemason VCs - N2 - Bent, Bloomfield, Bromley
Spencer John Bent, 1-2 November 1914, Age 23, The East Lancashire Regiment, A...
Memorial Gates
Designed by Liam O'Connor as a reduced-scale version of Lutyens' monument at ...
Other Subjects
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Vivian Forbes
Painter and poet. Born London. Â Served in the Royal Fusiliers in WW1. Had a close relationship with Glyn Philpot and on Philpot's death, Forbes died by suicide, the day after the funeral. The pict...
1 memorial
Aaron Botibol
This person's grave was destroyed by a WW2 bomb. The name is on the south-west face of the pedestal.
1 memorial
Sir Edward Frankland
Chemist. Born in Catterall, Lancashire. He was an originator of organometallic chemistry, and an expert in the analysis and quality of water. A member of the second Royal Commission on the pollutio...
1 memorial
Joseph Beck
Saving Clissold Park have some lovely old photos of this man but they have eschewed the normal form of potted biography and instead have provided 13 bullets points:Â Chairman of the Clissold Par...
2 memorials
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