General of H. M. Forces.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
William Cummings
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Burdett-Coutts Memorial Sundial
This elaborate piece of high Victoriana was designed by George Highton of Bri...
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Gordon Campbell, VC
Naval Officer. In the North Atlantic on the 17th February 1917, he was commanding HMS Farnborough (Q.5). (Q ships were decoy vessels designed to lure submarines into making surface attacks). He not...
Flight Lieutenant Charles Cholmondeley
Cholmondeley and Ewen Montagu conceived the idea behind Operation Mincemeat and carried it out. He joined the Royal Air Force Voluntary Reserve (RAFVR) in 1939 and was commissioned as a pilot offi...
Lieutenant Commander James Dawbarn Young, R.N.V.R.
Qualified as surveyor and then as a lawyer. Public spirited and worked with the Claremont Central Mission (we think this was a nationwide religious charitable organisation working with young peopl...
Rainbow Corner
Club for the American forces in the UK during WW2. Also known as the American Red Cross Club. This is where those "oversexed, overpaid and over here" GIs hung out. From British History online: The...
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Cllr Linda Kelly
Past speaker of Hackney and co-chair of the Britain and Israel Olympic Plaque Committee with Martin Sugarman.
Terence Donovan
W1, Bourdon Street, 30
City of Westminster Terence Donovan, 1936 - 1996, photographer, worked here, 1978 - 1996. Olympus Cameras 1999
C. Edward Bateman
Flight Lieutenant Charles Edward Bateman. From the American Air Museum in Britain website we know that he lived in San Gabriel, California, USA, and that he joined the Royal Air Force Volunteer Res...
Abraham Vollasky
Alderman. Killed in the V2 rocket attack on Hughes Mansions. His wife Sarah was also killed. Andrew Behan has researched Vollasky: Alderman Abraham Vollasky was born on 25 April 1899. In 1921 he m...
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