Holocaust / Holocaust Memorial Day
Events for this day (27 January every year) are organised by The Holocaust Memorial Day Trust which exists so that we learn the lessons of the past to build a better future now. It is responsible f...
Aged 62 Holt had worked as a porter at Mile End Hospital for 40 years. He had been commuting by bike the short journey of about a mile from his Stepney for just over a year in order to get fit. Th...
Role on the lost expedition: Petty officer on SS Terror. See John Franklin.
Role on the lost expedition: Officer on SS Terror. See John Franklin.
Role on the lost expedition: Royal marine on SS Erebus. See John Franklin.
Drowned in the 1898 HMS Albion disaster, aged 12. Buried in grave 3 at the memorial in East London Cemetery.
Employed at the Silvertown Brunner Mond works and killed in the 1917 Silvertown explosion.
Drowned in the 1898 HMS Albion disaster, aged 10. Buried in grave 3 at the memorial in East London Cemetery.