Summarised from Army Cadets: In 1859 the Volunteers were formed (forerunner to the Territorial Army). Some Volunteer units formed Cadet Companies. 1860 Octavia Hill, assisted in the formation of Southwark Cadet Company.
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Octavia Hill, social reformer, established this garden, hall and cottages, an...
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
Ernest Parfitt was born on 4 June 1887 at 16 Triangle, Old Kent Road, Peckham, Surrey (now Greater London), one of the six children of Walter Parfitt (1860-1939) and Emily Parfitt née Moore (1862-1...
Jack Elwood Evans was born on 7 July 1920 in Akron, Summit County, Ohio, USA, a son of George Elwood Evans (1894-1969) and Ada May Evans née Deffenbaugh (1895-1960). He was an elder brother to Quen...
Crystallographer. John Desmond Bernal was born on 10 May 1901 in Nenagh, County Tipperary, Ireland, the eldest of the five children of Samuel George Bernal (1864-1919) and Elizabeth Bernal née Mil...
Commoner on the Bridge House Estates Committee, 1894.
James Morton Anderson was born on 27 June 1886 at 9 Ella Road, Crouch End, London, the only son and 3rd of the seven children of James Anderson (1852-1940) and Sarah Reid Anderson née Morton (1851-...
There are records of the Thames freezing over as far back as CE 250. The piers of old London Bridge were broad and close together, meaning that they could get easily blocked creating a dam which wo...
