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 WW1 and how in 1922 it became the 17th London Regiment (Poplar and Stepney Rifles).
Credit for this entry to: Andrew Behan.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
17th (County of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (Poplar and Stepney Rifles)
Designed by Aston Webb with figures by Alfred Drury. The Duke of York who un...
Poplar & Stepney Rifles Site of the Drill Hall (1860 - 1907) of 26th Midd...
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
Joseph Ellsworth Durham was born on 16 August 1915 in Fort Smith, Sebastian County, Arkansas, USA, the only son and the fourth of the five children of Joseph Ellsworth Durham (1884-1981) and Lydia ...
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
17th century diarist and garden designer. Born Wotton, Surrey. Through his 1647 marriage he came into possession of the Sayes Court estate in Deptford, on the Thames. As far as we can tell the poss...
Site of the City of London School, 1835 - 1882 The Corporation of the City of London
Born India. Called to the bar by the Inner Temple in 1882. Travelled extensively, settled in Singapore where he made his fortune in property. Returned to England in 1905. In 1915 he gave his Singap...
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