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Surrey Theatre WW2 bomb

Inscription

{Symbols for: LFB, AFS London, AFS Mitcham}
In memory of eleven London Auxiliary Firemen, a Sub Officer of the London Fire Brigade and five Mitcham Auxiliary Firemen, killed by enemy action while relaying water from the basement of the demolished Surrey Theatre, which stood on this site and was then in use as an emergency water supply, to fires at the Elephant and Castle on the night of 10th/11th May 1941.
{List of 17 names - see Subjects commemorated.}

Site: Surrey Theatre WW2 bomb (1 memorial)

SE1, Blackfriars Road

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Surrey Theatre WW2 bomb

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Surrey Theatre

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Auxiliary Fire Service / AFS

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London Fire Brigade

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Auxiliary Fireman John William Frederick May Brazier

In the photograph Auxiliary Fireman John William Frederick May Brazier is in ...

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