John Edward Alfred Ansley was born on 7 September 1895 in Battersea. He was the second of at least eleven children of Alfred Ansley (1872-1948) and Mary Ansley née Quartley (1866-1945). His birth w...
Admiral. Born Staffordshire. 1740-4 circumnavigated the globe. Captured a Spanish galleon loaded with gold and silver (aren't they all?) and returned home a wealthy man. Died at home, Moor Par...
George Henry Antrim was born on 12 May 1894 in St Pancras, London, the fourth of the nine children of George Henry Antrim (1866-1928) and Esther Antrim née Soper (1867-1937). His birth was register...
We found more than one Roberto Arancibia who might be the one referred to on the plinth and none of them seem to be Generals, so we have failed to identify him.
Andrew Behan has researched this woman: Woman Police Constable Philippa Jane Arbuthnot was born on 8 October 1961, the youngest of the four children of Lieutenant Commander John Keith Arbuthnot O.B...
Born Archer Francis Lawrence Clive. Military Cross in 1914. 1941-3 commanded the 6th Battalion Grenadier Guards, including at the Battle of Morpeth.
From the Norman period, at least, until the introduction of firearms in the 16th century, some version of the longbow was the long-distance weapon of choice. The last recorded use in England seems...
The Arctic convoys of WW2 were ocean-going convoys which sailed from the UK, Iceland, and North America to northern ports in the Soviet Union – primarily Archangel and Murmansk in Russia. There wer...
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