Thousands of men and women died in the Arctic Convoys,1941-5.
WW2DB gives these stats: "In total, 104 Allied merchant ships were sunk with the arctic convoys, along with 18 warships; 829 merchant mariners and 1,944 navy personnel were killed aboard them. The Soviet Union lost 30 merchant ships and an unknown number of personnel. In the attempt to disrupt the convoys, the Germans lost 5 surface warships, 31 submarines, and many aircraft."
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
men and women killed in the WW2 Arctic Convoys
Our image shows a close-up of the logo on the memorial. We think that the bir...
Writer. Born Ian Lancaster Fleming at 27 Green Street, Mayfair. Christopher Lee was his step-cousin. He worked as a foreign correspondent with Reuters in Moscow, and was a senior naval intelligence...
Person, Armed Forces, Literature, Seriously Famous, Jamaica, Russia
Trained linguists for covert work, mainly with Russian during the Cold War. The Army was based near Bodmin, the Navy at Coulsdon Camp (1952 - 4, at the Fox pub building), the RAF at Salisbury Villa...
Novelist. Born to an aristocratic Russian family. 1870s had a spiritual awakening and become a fervent Christian anarchist and pacifist.
Person, Literature, Politics & Administration, Religion, Seriously Famous, Russia
Revolutionary, philosopher, and theorist of collectivist anarchism. Possibly the founder of anarchist theory in general. Born Russia. Well-travelled: Germany, France, Japan, London, Sweden, Sw...
27 million Soviet citizens & service men & women died in WW2.
6 artists/craftspeople and 5 organisations are named as creating this Gallery of 17 murals. Rather than repeat this information on all 17...
This photo comes from Mapio. These two blue plaques are on display at Gordon's School, near Woking, on the external wall of one of the bu...
Apart from the actual names the two plaques are the same. Our photo shows the one on the left.
It seems likely that this tavern and pleasure gardens took the name of a publican with the foreign name 'Pimlico'. There were many places of entertainment nearby and the whole area became known as...
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