Place Name Named after the 118 day Siege – or perhaps more accurately the Relief – of Ladysmith, which took…
Place Name Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh William Lumsden Saunders (August 24, 1894 – May 8, 1987) was a South…
Place Name According to Royal Arsenal History: “The Suakin-Berber railway in Sudan was a short-lived military project that never reached…
Place Name Military heritage. A former military airfield used as a Royal Navy Air Station during World War One and…
Place Name Military heritage. RAF Northolt, in Hillingdon, was one of the key airfields in the defence of London during both…
Place name Originally Ponder Street. A centurion was the principal professional officer in the armies of ancient Rome and its empire,…
Place Name Originally Woolwich Road. The Royal Military Academy was near here between 1741 and 1939. It was, as the…
Place Name The Royal Military Academy was near here between 1741 and 1939. It was, as the name gives away, a…
Place name A legion was was the largest military unit of the Roman army, during the period of the Roman Empire…
Place Name Named after General Charles George Gordon’s mission in Sudan to evacuate Egyptians from the city in 1883. Sudan was…