Group    From 6/8/1945  To 9/8/1945

Hiroshima and Nagasaki victims and survivors

Categories: Tragedy

Countries: Japan

The atomic bomb named "Little Boy" was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan by the Enola Gay, a Boeing B-29 bomber, on 6 August at 8:15 in the morning. "Fat Man" was dropped on Nagasaki by the Bockscar, on 9 August at 11:01 in the morning.

About 100,000 people were killed in Hiroshima and up to 80,000 in Nagasaki.

This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Hiroshima and Nagasaki victims and survivors

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Hiroshima - College Place - mural

In 2022 Geoff Staden kindly sent us the photo of the mural and the following ...

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Hiroshima - College Place - plaque

We believe this plaque was erected in 1985, the 40th anniversary of Hiroshima...

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Hiroshima tree - Furnivall Gardens

This tree is a memorial to the dead of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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Hiroshima victims

Since 1950 CND (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament) has organised an annual cer...

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Nuclear bombs

After our first visit in 2015 it was only when we got the photo home that we ...

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William Sinclair

William Sinclair

Role on the lost expedition: Able seaman on SS Terror. See John Franklin.

Person, Exploring, Tragedy

1 memorial
Adrian Crotty

Adrian Crotty

Killed in the Moorgate tube disaster.

Person, Tragedy

1 memorial
Fiona Stevenson

Fiona Stevenson

Fiona Georgina Stevenson was born on 22 June 1976 in Crewe, Cheshire. Electoral registers in 2003  show her listed at 135 Old Ford Road, London, E2 9QD. She was a solicitor at the firm of Reynolds ...

Person, Tragedy

2 memorials
William Whiteley

William Whiteley

Entrepreneur and founder of Whiteley's department store on Queensway, now Whiteleys shopping centre. A bequest from his will formed Whiteley Village. Born in Yorkshire and, 1848, apprenticed to a ...

Person, Commerce, Tragedy

3 memorials
Hian Oon Chan

Hian Oon Chan

Hian Oon Chan was born on 22 June 1941. Married to Yong C. Chua in the 3rd quarter of 1972 in the St Marylebone registration district. Home address was believed to have been 2 Calabria Road, London...

Person, Tragedy

1 memorial