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
A department of the government of the UK. From Victoria Cross commemorative p...
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Edmund Burke, author and statesman, lived here. B. 1729. D. 1797
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We thank our colleague Alan Patient for these photos. A few houses to the east at number 14, there is some impressive topiary. And with ...
Andrew Behan has kindly carried out some research on this man: Sir Alfred Hamer Warren, O.B.E. was born on 6 February 1856 in Poplar, London and educated at the local Wesleyan School. In 1896 he ma...
From the Picture source website: "The Turk’s Head was bought from the Council and renovated by our charity in 1992. Now it provides a café and affordable workspace and the rental income pays our ch...
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