Bor-Komorowski, Tadeusz [original burial site] b. June 1, 1895 d. August 24, 1966 Born Tadeusz Komorowski - the name 'Bor' was orginally his codename in the underground. Became Commander of the Home Army (Armia Krajowa) in Warsaw in 1943 and led the Warsaw Uprising, August-October 1944, on the failure of which he became a prisoner of war. His claims in his autobiography that the Home Army supported the Jewish population and opposed its deportation have been hotly contested. (Bio by: David Conway) Gunnersbury Cemetery, London, Greater London, England
Evans, Beryl b. 1929 d. November 8, 1949 Beryl Susanna Evans (nee Thorley) of 10 Rillington Place, Ladbroke Grove, West London, was the victim of perhaps the most notorious murder of the Twentieth Century. She was married to Timothy Evans, a truck driver who could not read or write. They had one daughter, Geraldine (born October 1948) and another child on the way. As they could not afford another baby, and as this was before the passing of the Abortion Act 1967, they asked John Reginald Halliday Christie, who lived in the same house...[Read More] (Bio by: Iain MacFarlaine) Cause of death: Murdered (gassed and strangled) Gunnersbury Cemetery, London, Greater London, England Plot: G 179
Evans, Geraldine b. 1948 d. November 10, 1949 Murdered, by Reginald Christie, at 10 Rillington Place, West London, along with her mother, Beryl Evans (q.v.). They are buried in a common grave along with one George Henry Potter; who, so far as is known, has nothing to do with the case. (Bio by: Iain MacFarlaine) Gunnersbury Cemetery, London, Greater London, England Plot: G 179
Ghyka, Matila b. September 13, 1881 d. July 14, 1965 Romanian Royalty. Born Matila Costiescu Ghyka in Iasi, the former capital of Moldavia. He attended Maritime College of Jersey, The French Naval Academy, and the Universite Libre de Bruxelles before he joined the diplomatic service in 1910. He served as Minister Plenipotentiary, at Rome, Berlin, Madrid, Paris, Stockholm, Vienna, and London over the course of his career. In 1918, he married the daughter of a British diplomat, Eileen O'Conor, and with her her had two children. During the 1920s and...[Read More] (Bio by: Iola) Gunnersbury Cemetery, London, Greater London, England
Ghyka, Princess Eileen b. 1897 d. February 10, 1963 Romanian Royalty. Born Eileen O'Conor, the daughter of Ambassador Nicholas Roderick O'Conor and Minna Margaret Hope-Scott. She married Prince Matila Ghyka of Romania in London in 1918 and with him had two children. After the second World War the family fled from Communist held Romania to the United States where her husband became a college professor. She died after the family's return to London. (Bio by: Iola) Gunnersbury Cemetery, Acton, Greater London, England