1917

James Bruce

Categories: Tragedy

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

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James Bruce

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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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Gulf War

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Event, Armed Forces, Tragedy

2 memorials

David Hoy

Person, Tragedy

1 memorial

Alexandre Moraes Watake

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Person, Tragedy

1 memorial

Hyde Park bomb

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Event, Terrorism, Tragedy

2 memorials

Henry Herbert Gwynn

Henry Herbert Gwynn is 3rd from the right of the nine boys standing in the photograph of the scout troop. He was born in 1899 in Newington, Walworth, Surrey, the youngest of the six children of Ja...

Person, Children, Community / Clubs, Tragedy

2 memorials