Son of William Charles Appleby and Edith Emily Appleby. Lived at 121 Hindle House Arcola Street Hackney where, 5 months before his death, a bomb had killed his mother. He was a Royal Navy DEMS Gunner aboard the merchant ship 'SS Bay Fisher' when it was bombed by an enemy aircraft and sunk 3.5 miles North East of Bell Rock Scotland. Of the ship's crew eight were lost including Appleby and four were rescued. Appleby is also remembered on the Plymouth Naval Memorial.
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Able Seaman Christopher Appleby
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Hindle House - WW2 - first plaque - first appearance
To the memory of those who fell in the 1939 - 1945 world war. On active servi...
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Baroness Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts
One of the great Victorian philanthropists who sought to rid London of its slums. Also one of the richest women in Britain in the mid 19th Century, widely respected for her undying generosity and p...
10 memorials
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Joyce Grace Hackett
Joyce Grace Hackett was born on 12 February 1918, the youngest of the three children of Charles George Hackett (1886-1921) and Lottie Helen Hackett née Aiton (1886-1940). Her birth was registered i...
War dead non-military, WW2
1 memorial
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
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