Grew up in Wapping. A spokesman for the Levellers and a colonel in the New Model Army. Killed by a Royalist raiding party during the siege of Pontefract. The Levellers arranged for his funeral, 14 November 1648, to also be a mass demonstration for their cause.
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Thomas Rainsborough
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Thomas Rainsborough
Thomas Rainsborough was buried in this churchyard on the 14th November 1648 a...
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W. J. Church Brasier
Brigade Chief Superintendent in the St John Ambulance Brigade, Metropolitan Corps, 1887-1905. Honorary Serving Brother in the Order of St John. The Museum of the Order of St John have an full desc...
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Margaret Mary Damer Dawson
Born Sussex. Founder of the Women’s Police Force, in WW1. Organizing Secretary of the animal campaigning organisation the Animal Defence and Anti-Vivisection Society. This opposed vivisection, camp...
2 memorials
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
RAF Squadron No. 61
It was first formed in Rochford, Essex as a fighter squadron of the British Royal Flying Corps during the First World War and disbanded in 1919. It was reformed in 1937 as a bomber squadron of the ...
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A. E. Silkstone
Resident of the Central Ward, Hendon who served and died in WW1.
War dead, WW1
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Sir Charles Reed
Politician. Member of the Society of Antiquaries of London. Director and Trustee of the original Abney Park Cemetery Joint Stock Company, Chairman of the Bunhill Fields Preservation Committee, asso...
2 memorials
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