Stuart212 Posted 22 June , 2011 Share Posted 22 June , 2011 Apologies if this is in the wrong section but being new to this forum I thought this might be the right place for this question. Can anyone please tell me, did Douglas Haig ever live in London, and if so, is there some sort of plaque on the building. Also, can anyone please tell me of any other Great War personalities who lived in London, I will probably be in London next week and might get the chance for a look round. Many thanks. Stuart Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
truthergw Posted 22 June , 2011 Share Posted 22 June , 2011 Before moving to Bemersyde, during thhe war, the Haig family home was at Kingston Hill. His elder sister had a home in London and I would imagine that Haig used that if he needed to be in town. That is certainly where he sufered his fatal heart attack in 1928. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Michelle Young Posted 22 June , 2011 Admin Share Posted 22 June , 2011 Sir Edward Grey lived at 1 Queen Annes Gate. Might be worth looking up the English Heritage Blue Plaques to get a feel for who was where? Michelle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart212 Posted 23 June , 2011 Author Share Posted 23 June , 2011 Thank you Tom and Michelle. I will search the blue plaques on-line, hopefully that will throw up something. Tom, do you happen to know where in Kingston Hill his house was, and also where his sisters house was in London ? Many thanks. Stuart Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 23 June , 2011 Share Posted 23 June , 2011 John Buchan lived at 76 Portland Place from 1913-1919. Siegfried Sassoon moved into 23 Campden Hill Square after the war and lived there until 1933. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Michelle Young Posted 23 June , 2011 Admin Share Posted 23 June , 2011 Vera Brittain lived in various London residences from the 20s onwards. Michelle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiegeGunner Posted 23 June , 2011 Share Posted 23 June , 2011 Tom, do you happen to know where in Kingston Hill his house was, and also where his sister's house was in London ? The Haigs lived at Eastcott House, Kingston Hill, from 1916 until 1923. The house is no longer there, but a small development of new houses nearby has been named Eastcott Close. Haig's sister Henrietta's house was 21 Princes Gate, in Knightsbridge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart212 Posted 23 June , 2011 Author Share Posted 23 June , 2011 Thank you to you all for your replies, if there is any more, please keep them coming. Cheers. Stuart Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
centurion Posted 23 June , 2011 Share Posted 23 June , 2011 Field Marshal French must have had a residence in London given that at the beginning of August 1914 Lloyd George tipped him off one evening that he ought to pop round to No 10 in the morning and see the Prime Minister Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mandy hall Posted 23 June , 2011 Share Posted 23 June , 2011 I came across this one on a recent visit to London, it's very close to the Tower Hill Memorial Plaque erected in 1995 by English Heritage at 43 Trinity Square, Tower Hill, London EC3, London Borough of Tower Hamlets Inscription REVEREND P.T.B. 'TUBBY' CLAYTON 1885-1972 Founder of Toc H lived here Profession Anglican Clergyman Category Religion, Philanthropy and Reform Material Ceramic Shape Circular Colour Blue Mandy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony Gorst Posted 23 June , 2011 Share Posted 23 June , 2011 I pass the one to H H Munro aka Saki everday at 93 Mortimer St (near the BBC) Sniped in November 1916 his last words were apparently 'put that bl**dy cigarette out'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 23 June , 2011 Share Posted 23 June , 2011 Henry Williamson born 1.12.1895, at 66 Braxfield Rd., Brockley, London. Edward Thomas born 3.3.1878 at 10 Upper Lansdowne Road North, Lambeth. David Jones attended Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts, 1910-1914. Robert Graves born 24.7.1895 at Red Branch House, Lauriston Road, Wimbledon Ivor Gurney studied at the Royal College of Music 1911-1915 and 1918-1922. (you may detect a theme, mine are all writers, but then, they're the ones I know about) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunner Bailey Posted 24 June , 2011 Share Posted 24 June , 2011 Vera Brittain lived in various London residences from the 20s onwards. Michelle Michelle Vera Brittain worked as a nurse in Fishmongers Hall by London Bridge during the Great War, so I suspect she lived in London for some periods. John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonathan Saunders Posted 24 June , 2011 Share Posted 24 June , 2011 I came across this one on a recent visit to London, it's very close to the Tower Hill Memorial Plaque erected in 1995 by English Heritage at 43 Trinity Square, Tower Hill, London EC3, London Borough of Tower Hamlets Inscription REVEREND P.T.B. 'TUBBY' CLAYTON 1885-1972 Founder of Toc H lived here Profession Anglican Clergyman Category Religion, Philanthropy and Reform Material Ceramic Shape Circular Colour Blue Mandy I have always assumed the property was church owned. Tubby Clayton was Vicar of All Hallows by the Tower from 1922 to 1962. There is a brass effigy of Tubby in the church if you ever have the chance to visit. Regards, Jonathan S Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Michelle Young Posted 24 June , 2011 Admin Share Posted 24 June , 2011 I thought Vera B worked at 1st London General in Camberwell? She visited a friend at Fishmongers Hall in March 1916. She lived at Champion Hill when she was a VAD at Camberwell, and livved in Kensington with her parents in 1918. There is a blue plaque to her and Winifred Holtby at Doughty Street, but nothing at her later London Residences, 19 Glebe Place and 2 Cheyne Walk Michelle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunner Bailey Posted 24 June , 2011 Share Posted 24 June , 2011 I thought Vera B worked at 1st London General in Camberwell? She visited a friend at Fishmongers Hall in March 1916. She lived at Champion Hill when she was a VAD at Camberwell, and livved in Kensington with her parents in 1918. There is a blue plaque to her and Winifred Holtby at Doughty Street, but nothing at her later London Residences, 19 Glebe Place and 2 Cheyne Walk Michelle You may be right, it's a few years since I read the book of her letters. Anyway Camberwell and Kensington are central London as well. Hardly the suburbs. John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart212 Posted 25 June , 2011 Author Share Posted 25 June , 2011 Many thanks to you all for your replies, has anyone got any more suggestions ? Cheers. Stuart Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris_Baker Posted 25 June , 2011 Share Posted 25 June , 2011 FM Sir Henry Wilson, 36 Eaton Square Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris_Baker Posted 25 June , 2011 Share Posted 25 June , 2011 Field Marshal French must have had a residence in London Lancaster Gate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart212 Posted 25 June , 2011 Author Share Posted 25 June , 2011 Chris, many thanks for those two, do you happen to know what number Lancaster Gate F.M French lived at ? Cheers. Stuart Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Posted 26 June , 2011 Share Posted 26 June , 2011 Field Marshal Wilson lived in London too- a quick google gives both 15 Eaton Place and 36 Eaton place!He was shot on his front doorstep in 1922. Greg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Paul Barton Posted 7 November , 2011 Share Posted 7 November , 2011 Kitchener lived at 2 Carlton House Terrace (off Pall Mall and a short walk from Leicester Square). There's also a statue of de Gaulle nearby - his Free French HQ was at No 4. Not strictly a WW1 personality, although he did command a company at Verdun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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