Person    | Male  Died 19/1/1917

Charles Downing

Categories: Tragedy

Charles Downing

Employed at the Silvertown Brunner Mond works and killed in the 1917 Silvertown explosion.

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Charles Downing

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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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Hughes Mansions

Hughes Mansions

Flats built in honour of Judge Thomas Hughes. On 27 March 1945 part of the building was destroyed by the last V2 rocket to hit London (another one fell on Orpington, Kent on the same date), killing...

Building, Property, Tragedy

2 memorials
George Edgar Oliver Wenborn, Edward Medal

George Edgar Oliver Wenborn, Edward Medal

Employed at the Silvertown Brunner Mond works and killed in the 1917 Silvertown explosion. Imperial War Museum page.

Person, Tragedy

1 memorial
Samuel Saunders

Samuel Saunders

Employed at the Silvertown Brunner Mond works and killed in the 1917 Silvertown explosion. Imperial War Museum has a page. More information about Saunders on another IWM page.

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1 memorial
Falklands War

Falklands War

Died: 649 Argentinians, 255 British, 3 civilian Falkland Islanders. 

Event, Armed Forces, Tragedy, Argentina

6 memorials
Station Officer Charles Fisher

Station Officer Charles Fisher

Fire fighter who died as a result of a fire at Covent Garden. Charles Fisher was born on 14 November 1906 in Bermondsey, London, a son of Joseph William Fisher (b.1876) and Alice Ellen Fisher née ...

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1 memorial

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H. E. J. Rosher

Killed in WW1.

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War dead, WW1
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F. Pullin

F. Pullin

Coaching Department

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War dead, WW1
1 memorial