The Great War and St John's Wood

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
and some of the teachers, too
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
William Charles Edward George Kemp 1885 – 1915 William Kemp was born in St John’s Wood and, in 1911, was a ...
Lord's in the First World War
1914 – 1918 1914 had seen the centenary of Lord’s and had been celebrated with a match between an MCC South ...
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
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
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
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
now at St Mark's Church, Hamilton Terrace
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

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?
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
Margaret Hubicki MBE
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
St Mark's, Hamilton Terrace
War Memorial from St Stephen the Martyr Avenue Road
War work in the High Street
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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