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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 ...
This is a list of people appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 1918 New Year Honours.. The 1918 New Year Honours were appointments by King George V to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of the British Empire.
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 ...
The Bagnet children Quebec, Malta, and Woolwich are named after the military bases where the family has been stationed. Matthew is guarantor to George's loan from Smallweed, when Smallweed calls in the debt George is forced to deliver a document Smallweed needs to help lawyer Tulkinghorn learn Lady Dedlock's secret in Bleak House.
Woolwich is situated 8.5 miles (13.7 km) from Charing Cross.It has a 1.6 mi (2.5 km) long frontage to the south bank of the River Thames. From the riverside it rises up quickly along the northern slopes of Shooter's Hill towards the common, at 200 ft (60 m) and the ancient London–Dover Road, at 433 ft (132 m).
B. Julian Bailey (racing driver) Billy Baker (footballer, born 1892) William Henry Balgarnie; Charles Bannerman; Peter W. Barlow; William Barne (died 1619)
Educated at Winchester College followed by the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, Hamilton-Gordon was commissioned into the British Army's Royal Artillery in February 1880. [1] [2] His first military service was in the Second Anglo-Afghan War in 1880. [1]
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]