Erection date: 25/4/2016
{Below an image of a Victoria Cross medal:}
Lieutenant Humphrey Firman, Royal Navy, 24th - 25th April 1916.
SW7, Old Brompton Road, South Kensington Station
The plaque is laid in the pavement, but the strong sunlight in our photo means you can't see it.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Humphrey Firman VC
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came a...
Seaman. Born Humphrey Osbaldston Brooke Firman in Kensington. In April 1916, ...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Humphrey Firman VC
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Edward McKnight Kauffer 1890 - 1954, Marion Dorn, 1896 - 1964, designers, lived here in flats 139/141. English Heritage
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Sir Charles MacKerras, CH, AC, CBE, 1925 - 2010, conductor and musicologist, lived here. The Public Memorials Appeal
This plaque, shown in both this drawing (by Adcock from Culture 24) and the photo of the house, was lost when the building was demolished...
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