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  2. List of schools in the Royal Borough of Greenwich - Wikipedia

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    22.Gordon Primary School; ... 30.Holy Family RC Primary School; 31.Horn Park Primary School; ... Woolwich Polytechnic School for Boys; 16.

  3. Charles George Gordon - Wikipedia

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    Gordon was born in Woolwich, Kent, a son of Major General Henry William Gordon (1786–1865) and Elizabeth (1792–1873), daughter of Samuel Enderby Junior.The men of the Gordon family had served as officers in the British Army for four generations, and as a son of a general, Gordon was raised to be the fifth generation; the possibility that Gordon would pursue anything other than a military ...

  4. General Gordon - Wikipedia

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    George Gordon, 4th Earl of Huntly (1514–1562), Scottish nobleman and commander of the King's Army at the Battle of Haddon Rig; George Gordon, 5th Duke of Gordon (1770–1836), Scottish British Army general; George Gordon-Lennox (1908–1988), British Army lieutenant-general; Hugh Gordon (British Army officer) (1760–1823), British Army ...

  5. 61st Battery Royal Field Artillery Boer War Memorial - Wikipedia

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    The Boer War Memorial in Woolwich is opposite the Royal Artillery Barracks on Grand Depot Road in Woolwich. The memorial marks the deaths of the 18 soldiers of the 61st Battery Royal Field Artillery who died in the Second Boer War. The memorial is a tall thin pink granite obelisk on a square plinth with a three-step base. [1]

  6. Statue of General Gordon - Wikipedia

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    Major-General Gordon was lionised as a British war hero after his death at the end of the Siege of Khartoum in January 1885. The statue was made in 1887–88. Gordon's brother, Sir Henry Gordon, advised Thornycroft to minimise the military character of the statue, and emphasis Gordon's qualities of strength of mind, love, kindness and affection.

  7. Lord George Gordon - Wikipedia

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    Lord George Gordon (26 December 1751 – 1 November 1793) was a British nobleman and politician best known for lending his name to the Gordon Riots of 1780. An eccentric and flighty personality, he was born into the Scottish nobility and sat in the House of Commons from 1774 to 1780.

  8. List of public art in the Royal Borough of Greenwich - Wikipedia

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    The Woolwich Ship: Plumstead Road, opposite the Royal Arsenal: 1999: Tom Grimsey: sculpture: steel — The sculpture celebrates the naval history of Woolwich; commissioned by Woolwich Development Agency & Greenwich Council History of Woolwich Dockyard

  9. Guards Crimean War Memorial - Wikipedia

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    The Guards Crimean War Memorial is a Grade II listed [1] memorial in St James's, London, that commemorates the Allied victory in the Crimean War of 1853–56. It is located on Waterloo Place, at the junction of Regent Street and Pall Mall, approximately one-quarter of the way from the Duke of York Column to Piccadilly Circus.