Person    | Female  Born 1900  Died 19/1/1917

Catherine Elizabeth Hodge

Categories: Tragedy

Catherine Elizabeth Hodge

Employed at the Silvertown Brunner Mond works and killed in the 1917 Silvertown explosion. Imperial War Museum has a page, and there we learnt that she was a 17-year old munitions worker.

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Catherine Elizabeth Hodge

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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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Colonel George Thomas Landmann

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Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
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John Somerville

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2 memorials