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...
The memorial does not give Wiggins a title (as it does for all the other names) and we are at a loss with "Southwark T/C". But we think Wiggins was a firefighter who died as a result of a fire.
Little information can be found about this person. The name would appear to be of Nigerian origin. Electoral registers in 1967 list four people with the surname of Mayaleke at 10 Florence Street, ...
John Fitzgerald St.Prix was born on 22 November 1963 and his birth was registered in the Stepney registration district. He died, aged 23 years, on 18 November 1987 in the King's Cross Underground S...
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
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