London unit which served in WW1.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
1st London (City of London) Brigde. R.F.A.
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London Troops War Memorial
Designed by Aston Webb with figures by Alfred Drury. The Duke of York who un...
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17th (County of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (Poplar and Stepney Rifles)
London unit which served in WW1 where it lost 1,022 soldiers. More information at Stepping Forward London. It's Wikipedia page shows how it was formed in 1908, gives details of its service during...
2 memorials
West Ham Pals
The 13th Battalion (West Ham) of the Essex Regiment, raised by the mayor of the borough. Volunteers from all over east London answered the call, leaving their families, jobs and their favourite foo...
2 memorials
Board of Ordnance / Royal Army Ordnance Corps
Responsible for the supply of armaments and munitions to the army and the navy, based in the Tower of London and also used Verbruggen's House at the Woolwich Arsenal until 1939. Disbanded in 1855 d...
4 memorials
Sir John Samuel Purcell, K.C.B.
John Samuel Purcell was born on 31 May 1839 in Ireland, a son of Dr John Francis Powell who was a Physician in Ordinary to successive Lords-Lieutenant of Ireland and later an Irish Poor Law Commiss...
1 memorial
Matthew Charles Dixon, VC
Captain in the Royal Regiment of Artillery. Awarded the Victoria Cross for bravery at Sebastopol on 17th April 1855.
War served, Other war
1 memorial
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5 memorials
Well Hall Pleasaunce
Wellehawe as an area in Eltham was first recorded in 1401. It still contains a Tudor barn built by William Roper, the son-in-law of Sir Thomas More. Another main feature, used to be Well Hall (pict...
2 memorials
Greater London Council
Replaced the LCC. The GLC was abolished, some say, because Mrs Thatcher could not abide its left-wing politics, nor its leader, Ken Livingstone. On its 50th anniversary Diamond Geezer posted a goo...
241 memorials
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