We will remember them,
Station Officer - L. W. G. Wilson
Auxiliary Freman - F. Mitchell
who gave their lives at Soho Fire Station on 7th October 1940.
W1, Shaftesbury Avenue, Soho Fire Station, 126
These plaques are all inside and normally inaccessible but, for the 2018 Pride in London Soho fire station held an open day and we took our opportunity.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Soho Fire Station - Wilson and Mitchell
The picture source provides: "On the evening of Oct. 7, 1940, Soho fire stati...
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Auxiliary Fireman - one of two men (with L. W. G. Wilson) who gave their live...
Station Officer - One of two men (with Frederick Mitchell) who gave their li...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Soho Fire Station - Wilson and Mitchell
In a 2012 European Trade Union Institute publication concerning firefighters'...
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Pte Sidney Godley, 1889 - 1957, awarded the first V. C. of the great war 23 August 1914, lived here. Loughton Town Council 2000
Brought to our notice by Spitalfields Life.
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This statue is a copy of the one in Highgate.
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