Greater London Council
General Charles de Gaulle, President of the French National Committee set up the Headquarters of the Free French Forces here in 1940.
See Musee de la Resistance for more information on this memorial (in French).
SW1, Carlton Gardens, 4
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Charles de Gaulle and the Free French
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Formed, in concept at least, on 18 June 1940 in de Gaulle's 'Appeal of 18 Jun...
Born Lille, France. Height 6 ft, 5 inches, nicknamed Le Grande Asperge. Presi...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Charles de Gaulle and the Free French
Replaced the LCC. The GLC was abolished, some say, because Mrs Thatcher could...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Charles de Gaulle and the Free French
{Left most double plaque - top:} LCC Lord Palmerston, 1784 - 1865, statesman,...
From the modern information board: "This garden covers the site of the church of St Olave, destroyed in 1666 by the Great Fire of London....
Hippodrome Theatre, Golders Green home of the BBC Concert Orchestra, 1969 - 2003. BBC Heritage Trail
The St Olave inscription is below the central ground floor window, behind the bike rack. The other memorial/information board is in front...
Unveiled on the same day as the Nissel plaque. We learnt something typing this plaque - the correct spelling of "ophthalmologist". The m...
English Heritage Mary Shelley, 1797-1851, author of Frankenstein, lived here, 1846-1851.
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