A player at the London Welsh Rugby Football Club who was killed in WW1.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Horace Wyndham Thomas
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London Welsh Rugby club - WW1
Unusually the plaque gives the birth and death years for each name. From a W...
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1 memorial
Bobby Abel
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1 memorial
Mark Tibbs
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1 memorial
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1 memorial
Victor McLaglen
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1 memorial
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D-Day
W6, Hammersmith Road, Entrance to St Paul's Gardens and Open Space
The boundary wall and gate pillars and the Highmaster's House are all that remain of St Paul's School buildings. The redbrick, very orna...
7 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
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