When Richard Frederick Elsom was born on 11 May 1930, in Peterborough, Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, John William Elsom, was 31 and his mother, Selina Maria Eldridge, was 30. He died on 10 August 1982, in Peterborough, Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 52, and was buried in Orton Waterville, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom.
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Britain entered the Second World War as war was declared on Germany on September 3, 1939. World War II came to an end after the Americans dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, which killed 140,000 people. Less than a week later, the Japanese surrendered and the war officially ended on August 15, 1945.
Winston Churchill becomes prime minister. British fighter pilots repel German air attacks in the Battle of Britain. London and other cities badly damaged in German bombing raids.
The UK becomes a permanent member of the UN Security Council.
English: habitational name from Elsham in Lincolnshire, which was named in Old English as ‘the estate (hām) of a man called Elli’.
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