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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War dead, WW2
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Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich
Infantry officer, naval officer and politician. Born Northamptonshire. Patron and good friend to Pepys. Fought on behalf of Cromwell's Commonwealth first in the army and then as a General at Sea. ...
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Company Sergeant Major Sydney George Ellis Jones, MC
Sydney George Ellis Jones was born in 1888, one of the five children of Thomas Jones and Mary Ellen Jones. His birth was registered in the 1st quarter of 1888 in the Peckham registration district. ...
War dead, WW1
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War dead, WW1
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