Person    | Male  Born 1890  Died 19/1/1917

John George Chandler

Categories: Tragedy

John George Chandler

Employed at the Silvertown Brunner Mond works and killed in the 1917 Silvertown explosion. Imperial War Museum has a page.

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John George Chandler

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Silvertown explosion - monument

Probably erected no more than an year or so after the explosion, this monumen...

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Thomas Faryner and his shop

Thomas Faryner and his shop

Born 1615-6, Thomas Faryner (or Farriner) joined the Baker's Company in 1637, and by 1649 had his own bakery/shop/home on Pudding Lane. It seems that someone failed properly to extinguish a fire in...

Building, Food & Drink, Tragedy

3 memorials
Yosef Romano

Yosef Romano

Weightlifter. Also known as Yossef, Yossi or Joseph. Born in Benghazi, Libya. He was the Israeli weight-lifting champion in the light and middle-weight divisions for nine years. He started to compe...

Person, Sport / Games, Tragedy, Germany, Israel/Palestine, Libya

1 memorial
Gustav Landauer

Gustav Landauer

Anarchist theorist. Born Germany. Also translated William Shakespeare into German. Beaten to death by soldiers while under arrest in Munich. Film director Mike Nichols is his grandson.

Person, Politics & Administration, Tragedy, Germany

1 memorial
Alan Stewart

Alan Stewart

An accountant from Auckland, killed in the Ladbroke Grove rail disaster, aged 28. Andrew Behan has kindly carried out further research: Allan John Stewart was born in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotlan...

Person, Tragedy, New Zealand

1 memorial
Kevin Dennis

Kevin Dennis

United Kingdom citizen who died in the terrorist attacks in America on 11 September 2001. Dennis Butcher was born on 13 July 1958, the only son of Richard Dennis and Patricia M. Dennis née Butcher...

Person, Tragedy, USA

1 memorial