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HMS Victory

Categories: Armed Forces

HMS Victory was built in the Old Single Dock in Chatham's Royal Dockyard. From her website "she would gain renown leading fleets in the American War of Independence, the French Revolutionary War and the Napoleonic War. In 1805 she achieved lasting fame as the flagship of Vice-Admiral Nelson in Britain's greatest naval victory, the defeat of the French and Spanish at the Battle of Trafalgar. ... In 1922 she was saved for the nation and placed permanently into dry dock where she remains today." In Portsmouth.

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HMS Victory

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Hurlingham Yacht Club

1922 is the year that the Club took on its current name, though we don't know...

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Telegraphist Arthur Newton Davey

Telegraphist Arthur Newton Davey

Arthur Newton Davey  was born on 27 September 1924, the son of Alfred Harold Davey (1887-1957) and Emily Elizabeth Davey née Clarke (1897-1953). His birth was registered in the 4th quarter of 1924 ...

Person, Armed Forces, Ireland

War dead, WW2
1 memorial
F. Dann

F. Dann

Resident of the Central Ward, Hendon who served and died in WW1.

Person, Armed Forces

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Francis Towneley

Francis Towneley

Born into a Catholic Lancashire family, supporters of the Jacobites. Served in the French army for over 10 years and returned to support Prince Charles in the 1745 rebellion. Colonel of the Manches...

Person, Armed Forces, Tragedy

2 memorials
F. J. Adams

F. J. Adams

Resident of Hendon who served and died in WW2.

Person, Armed Forces

War dead, WW2
1 memorial
Second Lieutenant Gervase Henry Francis Maude

Second Lieutenant Gervase Henry Francis Maude

Old boy of Wagner School. Gervase Henry Francis Maude was born on 20 March 1896 at 50 Onslow Gardens, Kensington, London, the son of Major Gerald Edward Maude (1851-1934) and Edith Caroline Maude,...

Person, Armed Forces, France

War dead, WW1
1 memorial

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John Keats birthplace

John Keats birthplace

EC2, Moorgate, 85

In a house on this site, the "Swan & Hoop", John Keats, poet, was born, 1795. The Corporation of the City of London

2 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
W. Voke
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
A. Hearn
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
A. Brant
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
S. Sweet

S. Sweet

Surbiton man killed serving in WW1.

Person

War dead, WW1
1 memorial