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...
Employed at the Silvertown Brunner Mond works and killed in the 1917 Silvertown explosion. The Imperial War Museum has a page with many entries. There is also a page for his wife. In 1904 he marri...
Killed in the 2017 London Bridge attack. Worked at HSBC bank. 39-year-old, from Spain, he had been on his way home after skating in a park with friends.
Michael Stanley Brewster was born on 22 March 1953 in Derby, Derbyshire, the son of William Stanley Brewster and Margaret Brewster née O'Neill. He married Sandra Wall (b.1957) and the marriage was ...
Initially we could find very little information about the event in which these 3 men died. From Labour Net: "Fellow worker Paul Barker (aged 20) was the only one of the four to survive the hydrogen...
