Person    | Male  Born 20/11/1949  Died 7/7/2005

Giles Vernon Hart

Telecommunications engineer and trades union activist. Born in Khartoum, Sudan. While working as an executive officer at Trinity House lighthouse authority, he set up a union branch. In the 1980s, he was chairman, secretary and treasurer of the Polish Solidarity Campaign and was a prominent member of the British Humanist Association. Killed on the number 30 bus that was blown up in Tavistock Square in the July 2005 terrorist attacks.

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Giles Vernon Hart

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Bombs 7/7/05 - no.30 bus - plaque

In memory of those who were killed in the bomb attack on a route 30 bus near ...

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Bombs 7/7/05 - Tavistock Square

All the text is turned sideways, so it avoids being upside down, whether view...

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Giles Vernon Hart - W6

{Beneath the Solidarity emblem:} In memory of Giles Vernon Hart a lifelong ca...

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Hyde Park memorial to bomb attack 7/7/05

The 52 columns are 1m apart, 3.5m high and made of roughly textured stainless...

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