Wealthy businessman living in London, 70 South Audley Street, who introduced the Duke of Windsor to golf. More importantly he initiated the Eagle Squadrons whereby American pilot volunteers could help the Allies in WW2 before America joined. He and his friends paid for the processing, transport and training of the volunteers. Born Pennsylvania. Died Florida but buried in London.
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Charles F. Sweeny
Commemorated ati
Eagle Squadrons
{On the front of the pillar, facing north, into the square, below a carved im...
Other Subjects
War dead, WW2
1 memorial
Major General Sir Henry Havelock
Born near Sunderland. Joined the army against his father's wishes. Served in India and the First Afghan War. Recaptured Cawnpore in the Indian Rebellion of 1857. Died in the recently relieved Luckn...
War dead, Other war
1 memorial
Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir John Maitland Salmond, GCB, CMG, CVO, DSO & Bar
John Maitland Salmond was born on 17 July 1881 the youngest of the five children of Major-General Sir William Salmond (1840-1932) and Emma Mary Hoyle Salmond née Hoyle (1849-1923). (His mother's ma...
1 memorial
T. G. Lumsden
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
War served, WW1
1 memorial
Lance Corporal Arthur Stephen Bradbury
Arthur Stephen Bradbury was born in 1896 in Sunbury, Middlesex (now Surrey), the fourth of at least nine children of John Bradbury (1863-1933) and Annie Bradbury née Skipper (1865-1922). His birth ...
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
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