On the first day of the Blitz it seems that a 50kg bomb fell through a ventilation shaft and exploded in the basement of the market which had been designated an air-raid shelter for the local people. The number of people killed varies depending on source but the memorial lists 45 names.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Columbia Market attack
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Columbia Market air raid shelter memorial
In memory of those who lost their lives when a bomb penetrated the Columbia M...
Other Subjects
Walter Mauger
Employed at the Silvertown Brunner Mond works and killed in the 1917 Silvertown explosion. Imperial War Museum has a page. Another page at the IWM gives: "Walter's brother, Edward, was killed in a...
Martin M. Wortley
United Kingdom citizen who died in the terrorist attacks in America on 11 September 2001. Martin Michael Wortley was born on 21 November 1971 and his birth was registered in the Redbridge registra...
Bethnal Green WW2 disaster
The worst civilian disaster of WW2. 173 men, women and children lost their lives as they went down into Bethnal Green underground air raid shelter in response to a siren. They died not from a bomb ...
Temporary Leading Fireman Stephen Thomas Maynard
Temporary Leading Fireman of Poplar Fire Station who died, aged 26 years, fighting a fire aboard the petroleum gas tanker the M. V. Rudi M, at Limehouse Basin on 25 January 1980. 50 firemen had bee...
Osman Sharif
Killed aged 16. Evening Stardard reports an arrest of another 16 year old suspected of stabbing Sharif. Our photo was taken from a framed image at the shrine.