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The Great War and St John's Wood

  • Barrow Hill School - the Great War project

    Barrow Hill School - the Great War project

    as discovered by today's pupils
  • Barrow Hill School boys (and one girl) who fought in the First War

    Barrow Hill School boys (and one girl) who fought in the First War

    and some of the teachers, too
  • Does anyone know which brother is John and which is William Hanover?

    Does anyone know which brother is John and which is William Hanover?

    Gerald Hanover has sent a photograph of his  grandfather John Hanover and John’s  brother William.  Both of them feature in ...
  • First War casualties from St John's Wood who are commemorated elsewhere

    First War casualties from St John's Wood who are commemorated elsewhere

    William Charles Edward George Kemp 1885 – 1915 William Kemp was born in St John’s Wood and, in 1911, was a ...
  • Post Office in Regent's Park 1914 - 1918

    Post Office in Regent's Park 1914 - 1918

    The importance of mail for troops in Flanders Troops were living in trenches in Flanders by December 1914 and the highlight ...
  • Spanish flu and St John's Wood 1918 - 20

    Spanish flu and St John's Wood 1918 - 20

    The first wave It is extremely difficult to find out how the Spanish flu epidemic affected St John’s Wood, or indeed ...
  • The Angel of Mons and St John's Wood

    The Angel of Mons and St John's Wood

    On 29 September, 1914  Arthur Machen, a writer who lived in Melina Place, off Grove End Road, published a fictional ...
  • The Morgan family of Violet Hill and Abbey Gardens

    The Morgan family of Violet Hill and Abbey Gardens

      Edward Reuben Morgan (1855- 1912) Master chimney sweep My great grandfather Edward Reuben Morgan was born in 1855 and was baptised ...
  • War Memorial from St Stephen the Martyr Avenue Road

    War Memorial from St Stephen the Martyr Avenue Road

    now at St Mark's Church, Hamilton Terrace
  • Zeppelins and the blitz on London 1914 - 18

    Zeppelins and the blitz on London 1914 - 18

    with special reference to St John’s Wood Zeppelins In 1900 the Germans began building Zeppelins – rigid steerable airships – and by ...
World War 1 and World War 2
  • 1939 Register : St John's Wood gets ready for war
  • Air Raid Shelters and Air Raid Warden Posts
  • Air raid shelters in your home or garden
  • Bomb sites in St John's Wood
  • Does anyone know which brother is John and which is William Hanover?
  • Eileen Alexander 1917 - 1986 - memories of WW2 from Love in the Blitz
  • Fighting tooth and nail
  • Flying bomb at Wharncliffe Gardens 1944
  • George Racine Herbert DFM 1922 - 1943
  • Guy Gibson V.C., D.S.O and bar, D.F.C. and bar 1918 - 1944
  • Home Guard
  • One of the last flying bombs 25 November 1944
  • Primrose Hill
  • Primrose Hill in wartime
  • Private Sidney Godley VC
  • RAF training in 1944 in St Johns Wood
  • RAF training in St John's Wood 1939 - 45
  • Requisitioned houses in wartime
  • Rose Watt
  • Royal Air Force in St John's Wood in World War Two
  • Sir Beverley Baxter (1891 - 1964)
  • St John's Wood Park - the air raid in December 1940
  • Trying to trace my mother from a wartime photo
  • War artists of Second World War
  • War Memorial from St Stephen the Martyr Avenue Road
  • War work in the High Street
  • Wartime gallantry in St John's Wood
  • Wartime paintings by Olga Lehmann
  • Womens' war work in Primrose Hill 1941-45
  • Zeppelins and the blitz on London 1914 - 18
  • The Great War and St John's Wood
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