Temporary portable harbours developed by the United Kingdom in WW2 for the rapid offloading of vehicles onto beaches. They were used mainly during the Normandy landings in June 1944. Designed by Major Allan Beckett, from an idea by Winston Churchill, who was determined never to repeat the disastrous 1915 amphibious landings on beaches during the Gallipoli Campaign.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Mulberry Harbours
Major Allan H Beckett MBE RE (1914 - 2005) lived here (1919 - 1939). His engi...
Herbert Hyde was born in 1906, the youngest of the seven children of John William Hyde (1866-1910) and Maria Hyde née Field (1867-1930). His birth was registered in the 2nd quarter of 1906 in the P...
From Yorkshire. MP for Scarborough and then Knaresborough. Colonel of a regiment of foot in Cromwell's Parliamentary army, governor of Gloucester and one of the signatories to the death warrant of ...
Former Destroyer in the Polish Navy. ORP stands for Okret Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej (Ship of the Polish Republic).
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
He was a second patrol lieutenant in the 5th Dragoon Guards during the Second Boer War. On the 30th October 1899 he took out from Ladysmith a small patrol of the 5th Dragoon Guards. They came unde...
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