Churchill's chief military advisor in WW2. Born (and brought up) in France as Alan Brooke into the Irish aristocracy. Entered the army aged 18 and served in Ireland and India and then in WW1, in France. Married twice, his first wife dying in 1925 in a car crash in which he was driving. In WW2 he was Chief of the Imperial General Staff and then Field Marshal. As a keen ornithologist he was president of the Zoological Society of London 1950 - 1954 and vice-president of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. Died at home in Hampshire.
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Field Marshal, First Viscount Alanbrooke
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Alanbrooke statue
{On the front of the plinth:} Field Marshal The Viscount Alanbrooke {Right s...
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Christopher Rahere Webb
Known professionally as Christopher Webb, he was a stained glass designer. Christopher Rahere Webb was a son of Edward Alfred Webb and a nephew of Sir Aston Webb. His middle name, Rahere, refers to...
1 memorial
Hampstead fire station
Tetramesh has a 1906 photo of this building showing that there used to be more to the tower.
2 memorials
P. Fenton
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
War served, WW1
1 memorial
A. W. K. Brett
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
War served, WW1
1 memorial
7th (City of London) Battalion, The London Regiment
London unit which served in WW1. The 7th (City of London) Battalion had no traditional name, but was nicknamed the 'Shiny Seventh' because it wore brass buttons in a Regiment whose other battalion...
1 memorial
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Lauderdale Road Synagogue - WW1 and WW2
W9, Ashworth Road, Lauderdale Road Synagogue
British Jews in the First World War provides a personal profile for each of the WW1 names. The WW1 list of names is identical to that l...
War dead | WW1, WW2
58 subjects commemorated
58 subjects commemorated
Rifleman Harold Owen Bagust
Harold Owen Bagust was born in 1896, the sixth of the seven children of Alfred John Cooper Bagust (1848-1918) and Mary Ann Bagust née Baugh (1859-1922). His birth was registered in the 3rd quarter...
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Thomas Cubitt
Builder. Born at Buxton, near Norwich. He travelled to India as a ship's carpenter, from which he was able to raise sufficient funds to start his own building firm in 1810. His two brothers: Willi...
5 memorials
War dead, WW2
1 memorial
War dead, WW1
1 memorial