Person    | Male  Born 1873  Died 19/1/1917

Hugh McCoombs

Categories: Tragedy

Hugh McCoombs

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

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Hugh McCoombs

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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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Jon Choi
1 memorial
Robin Blair Larkey

Robin Blair Larkey

United Kingdom citizen who died in the terrorist attacks in America on 11 September 2001. Robin Blair Larkey was born on 24 December 1952 in Ilford, Essex. He was the son of Blair Kenneth Larkey (...

Person, Tragedy, USA

1 memorial
Mark Smith

Mark Smith

Mark Colin Alexander Smith was born on 13 October 1981 the elder child of Colin J. Smith and Jean M. Smith née Corper. His birth was registered in the Lambeth registration district. The birth of hi...

Person, Tragedy

1 memorial
Kenneth Gerald Salvesen

Kenneth Gerald Salvesen

Andrew Behan has researched this man: Kenneth Gerald Salvesen was born on 1 October 1952 in New York City, New York, USA. On 16 July 1977 he married Karen J. Bohren in Contra Costa County, Californ...

Person, Tragedy, USA

1 memorial

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Charles Mèwes

Charles Mèwes

Born in France. Worked in collaboration with Arthur Davis - see there for more information.

Person, Architecture, France

1 memorial
Thomas Wall - Russettings

Thomas Wall - Russettings

SM2, Worcester Road, 25

Sutton's local list gives: "Russettings is a large house built in 1899 on a three-quarter acre plot at 25 Worcester Road. It was one of t...

1 subject commemorated, 2 creators
William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

Born and died in Stratford-upon-Avon. His birth date is usually given as the 23rd, the same date as his death, but all that is actually known is that he was baptised 3 days later, on the 26th. Even...

Person, Poetry, Seriously Famous, Theatre

47 memorials
J. W. Ambridge

J. W. Ambridge

Resident of Hendon who served and died in WW2.

Person, Armed Forces

War dead, WW2
1 memorial
Keith Toms

Keith Toms

Councillor and former Mayor of Harrow Council.

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial