Attending a ‘Person Shut in Lift’ at Moelwyn Hughes Court, he fell from the flat roof while making his way to the lift motor room. Aged 25.
O'Donovan was brought up in Harrow and was an avid sportsman. He and his brother married a pair of sisters. After getting married, he moved to Dunstable with his wife where they began raising their two children.
Source: Islington Tribune
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Fm. Daniel Michael O'Donovan
Fm. Daniel Michael O'Donovan. 11.3.64, Hilldrop Lane, N7.
Either lost his life, or gave distinguished service to the London Fire Brigade, and was buried in the Highgate Cemetery plot between 1884 and 1955.
Either lost his life, or gave distinguished service to the London Fire Brigade, and was buried in the Highgate Cemetery plot between 1884 and 1955.
Fireman killed as a result of an air raid on Plaistow Road, E15 on 19 March 1941. Charles Wesley Messenger Drew was born on 19 June 1913, a son of Charles Drew (1889-1964) and Ethel Drew née Mess...
Either lost his life, or gave distinguished service to the London Fire Brigade, and was buried in the Highgate Cemetery plot between 1884 and 1955.
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