Arandora Star
Deporting Italian and German prisoners of war the cruise ship was between Liverpool and Canada when it was struck by a torpedo from a German submarine. Of the 734 Italians on board, 486 died. Of th...
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War dead, WW1
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War dead, WW1
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War dead, WW1
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William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount
Born New York City into an extremely wealthy family. Lived in Rome in his mid-thirties where he developed a life-long taste for the arts. On his father’s death in 1890 he built the luxury Waldorf...
Person, Journalism / Publishing, Philanthropy, Property, Italy, USA
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Augustine of Canterbury
Christianity had already taken root in Britain but it only came under Catholic control with the arrival of the first official Christian missionary to England, sent by Pope Gregory the Great. Wikip...
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Saint Augustine
Theologian and philosopher. Also known as Augustine of Hippo. Born in Thagaste (now Souk Ahras), Algeria. He was brought up as a Christian by his mother, Saint Monica. He travelled to teach in Rome...
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Alfred Baggs
Alfred Baggs was born in 1920 and his birth was registered in the Shoreditch registration district, his mother's maiden name being recorded as Stevens. According to the Commonwealth War Graves Com...
War dead, WW2
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Federica Baldassa
Killed by a Greggs delivery vehicle at about 21.20 on a Friday evening, aged 26. The lorry was turning left into Bloomsbury Square (some yards west of the site of the ghost bike). Came here fro...
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War dead, WW1
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