Roland Boys Bradford

Roland Boys Bradford

male, deceased (1917)
Old Epsomian, Killed in action, From County Durham, British, British Army general, cambrai…DurhamLightInfantry, Durham Light Infantry Museum & Durham Art Gallery
Roland Boys Bradford (VC, MC) (22 February 1892-30 November 1917) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious...
Bill Nicholson

Bill Nicholson

male, deceased (2004)
From Scarborough, Officer of the Order of the British Empire, Goodison Park, FIFA World Cup 1950 player, Portugal national football team, Scarborough, North Yorkshire…DurhamLightInfantry
Bill Nicholson OBE (26 January 1919 - 23 October 2004) was an English football player, coach, manager and scout who devoted his life to Tottenham...
Nigel Poett

Nigel Poett

male
World War II, DurhamLightInfantry, British Indian Army, British Military, British Army, brigade
General Sir Nigel Poett (J.H.N. Poett) was a British Army officer best known for commanding the 5th Parachute Brigade, British 6th Airborne...
Richard May

Richard May

male, deceased (2004)
Brain tumour death, called to the bar, labour party, British, war crime, judge…DurhamLightInfantry
Sir Richard George May (12 November 1938 - 1 July 2004) was a British judge. May was born in London and educated at Haileybury. Following national...
Gilbert Norman

Gilbert Norman

male, deceased (1944)
Nazi concentration camp victim, Indre, executed, spy, mauthausen concentration camp, gestapo…DurhamLightInfantry
Gilbert Maurice Norman was born 1914 in Saint-Cloud, Île-de-France to an English father and a French mother and was educated in France and E...

Harold Lawton

male, deceased (2005)
British Military, professor, prisoner of war, World War I, University of Paris, British…DurhamLightInfantry
Professor Harold Lawton (July 27, 1899 - December 24 2005) was a scholar of French literature and, prior to his death, one of the last surviving...
Adam Archibald

Adam Archibald

male, deceased (1957)
buckingham palace, DurhamLightInfantry, Royal Engineers Museum, Chatham, Kent, Royal Engineer, King George V
Adam Archibald (14 January 1879 - 10 March 1957) was a Scottish First World War recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious...

John Ferguson

male, deceased (1975)
Officer of the Order of St John, British Chief Constable, Army Officer, British, police officer, commandant…DurhamLightInfantry
Major Sir John Frederick Ferguson CBE OStJ (c.1891 - 27 May 1975) was a senior British police officer. Ferguson passed out from the Royal Military...

Peter de la Billière

male, 75 years old
Sir Peter Edgar de la Couer de la Billière, British military personnel of the Korean War, MC & Bar, Old Harrovian, Meritorious Service Decoration, commissioned…DurhamLightInfantry, King's Shropshire Light Infantry
General Sir Peter Edgar de la Couer de la Billière KCB, KBE, DSO, MC & Bar (b. 1934) is a former British soldier, who was Director of the United K...

Harold Orton

male, deceased (1975)
English, Newcastle University, uppsala, university of newcastle, university of leeds, university of sheffield…DurhamLightInfantry
Harold Orton was an English university lecturer and dialectologist, best remembered as co-founder of the Survey of English Dialects. Orton...