One of two killed by the Docklands IRA bomb. They were both workers in the newsagent’s directly opposite the bomb.
Our colleague Andrew Behan has researched this man and found the photo: John Alan Jeffries was born on 9 December 1964 in Lewisham, the son of John W. Jeffries and Betty Ellen Jeffries, née Pattison. He was killed working in a newsagent shop as a result of an IRA terrorist explosion at Canary Wharf, aged 31 years, on 9 February 1996.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
John Jefferies
Due to a warning the area was evacuated but this was incomplete and two men w...
Royal Engineer killed by an exploding bomb while assisting in the attempt to disarm it. Andrew Behan has kindly carried out some research on this man: Sapper Edward McLaren was born about 1918 in ...
For more information about this hero click on the picture of his plaque.
Philip Stuart Russell was born on 11 July 1976 in Pembury, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, the son of Grahame Russell and Veronica Russell née Jones. He was an asset manager for J P Morgan. His obituary ca...
Role on the lost expedition: Able seaman on SS Terror. See John Franklin.
Richard Beacon was born on 19 February 1914, the eldest of the three children of Richard Beacon (1893-1958) and Florence Maria Winifred Beacon née Taylor (1896-1983). His birth was registered in Fa...
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