The Royal Star and Garter Home on Richmond Hill, in Richmond, London, was built between 1921 and 1924 to a design by Sir Edwin Cooper, based on a plan produced by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott in 1915, to p
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Riverside view from Twickenham bank
The Royal Star and Garter Home
The Bromhead Memorial, in the nearby Richmond Cemetery, commemorates deceased residents of the Home
Nancy Wake
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Nancy Grace Augusta Wake,, also known as Madame Fiocca and Nancy Fiocca, was a New Zealand-born Australian nurse and journalist who joined the French Resistance and later the Special Operations Execut
Royal Star and Garter Home, Richmond
…Waldron (1920–1999), cricketer and an officer in the Hampshire Regiment during the Second World War, in which he was awarded the Military Cross and bar. Nancy Wake (1912–2011), who fought with the French Resistance and lived in the home from 2003 until her death. She died on 7 August 2011, aged 98, at Kingston…
Wake in 1945
The medals awarded to Wake for her World War II service on display at the Australian War Memorial