2005

Giles Vernon Hart

Categories: Community / Clubs, Politics & Administration, Tragedy

Image source: www.polishsolidarity.org.uk

Telecommunications engineer and trades union activist. Born in Khartoum, Sudan. While working as an executive officer at Trinity House lighthouse authority, he set up a union branch. In the 1980s, he was chairman, secretary and treasurer of the Polish Solidarity Campaign and was a prominent member of the British Humanist Association. Killed on the number 30 bus that was blown up in Tavistock Square in the July 2005 terrorist attacks.

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Giles Vernon Hart

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Bombs 7/7/05 - no.30 bus - plaque

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Bombs 7/7/05 - Tavistock Square

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Giles Vernon Hart - W6

{Beneath the Solidarity emblem:} In memory of Giles Vernon Hart a lifelong ca...

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