Subject: Howard Dennis
Died 20/8/1989, 36 years ago
Fashion model and victim of the Marchioness tragedy, aged 29.
Subject: Lino Di Girolamo
Died 20/8/1989, 36 years ago
Italian victim of the Marchioness tragedy, aged 28.
Subject: Marino Drusetta
Died 20/8/1989, 36 years ago
Italian victim of the Marchioness tragedy, aged 30.
Subject: Fireman Harry Errington
Born 20/8/1910, 115 years ago
Fireman Harry Errington was awarded the George Cross, the highest award for valour alongside the VC - when he saved two firemen colleagues from the flaming ruins of the Rathbone Street fire station...
Subject: Raymond Ewers
Born 20/8/1917, 108 years ago
Born Australia. Served in WW2 initially as a sapper and then as a war artist.
Subject: Stephen Faldo
Died 20/8/1989, 36 years ago
Captain of the Marchioness pleasure boat. He had worked on the Thames since he was 17 years old and became captain of the ship in 1987. He died in the collision aged 29.
Subject: Robert Finch
Born 20/8/1944, 81 years ago
Robert Gerard Finch was born on 20 August 1944 in Ootacamund, India. (Now frequently known as Ooty but officially called Udhagamandalam, it is a town in the Nilgiri Hills). He was the son of Brigad...
