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High-angle view of a grey battleship with patterned camouflage paint sailing through calm, dark water.

HMS Royal Sovereign 1942

51 Histon Road, Cambridge

History of 51 Histon Road

1913

E C Longstaffe, agent

Mrs M J Longstaffe, laundress


1939

Henry Day, b 1869, retired builders labourer

Alice, b 1870

Amelia E Carter, b 1894, laundry charge hand machine room (Laundry ARP Service)


1940

Reginald Henry George Carter: Able Seaman, C/JX 151298, H.M.S. Royal Sovereign, Royal Navy, who died on Tuesday 20 August 1940. Age 19. Buried in MAALA CEMETERY Yemen. Son of Alfred and Amelia Elizabeth Carter, of Cambridge, England. 

Died of acute peritonitis.

 

Building dates

  • Built 1900–1929
Source for this date
  • Built 1900–1929: EPC construction age band: 1900–1929

Tags

  • world war two

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  • Histon Road

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