Group    To 19/4/1941

13 London firemen & women & 21 Beckenham firemen killed

Categories: Armed Forces, Tragedy

Group

32 firemen and 2 firewomen, including:  Hilda Dupree, Winifred Peters, three crews from Beckenham along with several other more local crews from Hackney and Homerton. More information at Firemen Remembered.

This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
13 London firemen & women & 21 Beckenham firemen killed

Commemorated ati

Old Palace School - WW2 bomb

The Beckenham firemen are also commemorated, and listed by name, on a plaque ...

Read More

Other Subjects

A. E. Grundy

A. E. Grundy

Resident of Willesden who volunteered and died in the Anglo Boer War, 1899-1900.

Person, Armed Forces, South Africa

War dead, Other war
1 memorial
Corporal Frederick John Russell Fishley

Corporal Frederick John Russell Fishley

Frederick John Russell Fishley was born 11 May 1887 in West Brompton, London, the eldest of the four children of Frederick Davay Fishley (1865-1915) and Sarah Jane Fishley née Russell (1866-1932). ...

Person, Armed Forces

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Reginald Leonard Haine, VC

Reginald Leonard Haine, VC

Awarded the VC for his heroism on 28-29 April 1917, age 20, while serving in the Honourable Artillery Company. "His superb courage, quick decision and sound judgement were beyond praise. A splendid...

Person, Armed Forces

War served, WW1
1 memorial
Women’s Transport Service (FANY)

Women’s Transport Service (FANY)

All-women unit, affiliated to the TA, formed as the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry and active in both nursing and intelligence work during WW1 and WW2.  The original role was to ride horseback (hence "...

Group, Armed Forces, Espionage, Medicine

1 memorial
Fleet Air Arm

Fleet Air Arm

In 1918 the Royal Naval Air Service merged with the Royal Flying Corps to form the RAF. 6 years later the Fleet Air Arm was formed encompassing all the RAF flying operations based on aircraft carri...

Group, Armed Forces

1 memorial