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HMS Victory

Categories: Armed Forces

HMS Victory was built in the Old Single Dock in Chatham's Royal Dockyard. From her website "she would gain renown leading fleets in the American War of Independence, the French Revolutionary War and the Napoleonic War. In 1805 she achieved lasting fame as the flagship of Vice-Admiral Nelson in Britain's greatest naval victory, the defeat of the French and Spanish at the Battle of Trafalgar. ... In 1922 she was saved for the nation and placed permanently into dry dock where she remains today." In Portsmouth.

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HMS Victory

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Hurlingham Yacht Club

1922 is the year that the Club took on its current name, though we don't know...

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W. N. Pitts

W. N. Pitts

J. Lyons & Co. Ltd. staff member who died in WW2.

Person, Armed Forces

War dead, WW2
1 memorial
Private Joseph William Thomas Gale

Private Joseph William Thomas Gale

Joseph William Thomas Gale was born on 14 April 1899 in Walworth, London, the second of the eight children of Joseph Frederick Cooper Gale (1872-1927) and Catherine Emma Gale née Storrar (1872-1955...

Person, Armed Forces, Belgium

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
B. G. Wiseman

B. G. Wiseman

Resident of Hendon who served and died in WW2.

Person, Armed Forces

War dead, WW2
1 memorial
Private Frederick Alfred Johnson

Private Frederick Alfred Johnson

Frederick Alfred Johnson was the eldest of at least eight children of Alfred Stoving Johnson (1874-1953) and Mercy Johnson née Harmer (1875-1950). His birth was registered in the 4th quarter of 189...

Person, Armed Forces, France

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
H. Scott

H. Scott

Resident of Willesden who volunteered and died in the Anglo Boer War, 1899-1900.

Person, Armed Forces, South Africa

War dead, Other war
1 memorial