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Bornat Charles
Charles Bornat Born in born in 1909, Charles Bornat was a professional architect who worked in Plymouth from 1946-50 on the reconstruction of the city, which had been devastated by war-time bombing. In a […]
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Bond Dickie
Dickie Bond Cecil, Cyril, Dick, or more commonly Dickie Bond, was a leading member of the Communist Party in Uxbridge, the Electricians Union and, later, the Pensioners’ Federation. Born in Cowley, Uxbridge on Good Friday, […]
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Brown Ernest
Ernest Brown Born Ernest Henry Brown in Bingley in 1892, he was an early organiser against the First World War and was imprisoned in 1915. He was national secretary for conscientious objectors from 1916-8 and […]
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Bubnova Leda
Leda Bubnova Leda Bubnova was born near St Petersburg about 1913, the youngest of a large family. Many of her siblings took part in the revolutionary movement. She studied medicine in Leningrad, the first member […]
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Burns Emile
Emile Burns Bernard Emile Vivian Burns was born on 16 April 1889 in St Kitts in the then British West Indies, the sixth child and the fifth son of James Burns, the Harbour Master and […]