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A guild of knights, whose role may have been to defend London from attack from the east. The book "London, 800-1216: The Shaping of a City By Christopher Nugent Lawrence" has a go at explaining what this was.

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King Edgar

The plaque with this text utilizes an unusually interesting script, reminisce...

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1st County of London (Middlesex Husrs.)

1st County of London (Middlesex Husrs.)

London unit which served in WW1.

Group, Armed Forces

1 memorial
Volunteers 12th and 13th Irregulars

Volunteers 12th and 13th Irregulars

Part of the force commanded by Havelock. Cavalry.

Group, Armed Forces

1 memorial
G. E. D. Hands

G. E. D. Hands

Resident of Hendon who served and died in WW2.

Person, Armed Forces

War dead, WW2
1 memorial
W. Townsend

W. Townsend

J. Lyons & Co. Ltd. staff member who died in WW1.

Person, Armed Forces

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Ronald William Godfrey Jones, B.E.M.

Ronald William Godfrey Jones, B.E.M.

Footballer. A serving soldier n WW2, he was taken prisoner and sent to a camp in Italy. He volunteered to be an engineer, but found himself being sent to Auschwitz concentration camp. Here he witne...

Person, Armed Forces, Social Welfare, Sport / Games, Wales

1 memorial

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World War 1

World War 1

We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came along at which point it was renamed as World War One or the First World War. But the term was first used in print in 1920...

Event, Armed Forces, Tragedy

402 memorials
St John Ambulance - Bostock 2

St John Ambulance - Bostock 2

TW11, Park Road

At Bostock.net we found the coat of arms for Geoffrey Rowley Bostock (1880 - 1961), the same as the one on this plaque.

2 subjects commemorated
Roger Fenton

Roger Fenton

Photographer. Born in Heywood, near Rochdale, Lancashire. Trained and worked in law. In 1853 the Photographic Society of London was founded, with Fenton as its Honorary (unpaid) Secretary. In 1855 ...

Person, Photography

1 memorial