From Guinness Partnership History: "The biggest single loss of life at The Guinness Trust estates occurred in one night and at one estate – the 23 February 1944 at the Kings Road tenements. Bombers – likely heading to destroy the power station at nearby Lot’s Road – found the Guinness Trust Building as their target instead. Half of the 160 tenements were destroyed with the rest damaged. 59 people lost their lives that night, including Superintendent Caple and his wife."
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Kings Road tenements WW2 attack
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Guinness Trust Buildings WW2 attack
In memory of the fifty-nine persons who lost their lives on 23rd Feb. 1944.
Other Subjects
Peter Bradbury
Peter Bradbury was born on 13 April 1951 the son of Jack Bradbury (1912-1972) and Lilian Mary Bradbury née Warburton (1912-1979). His birth was registered in the 2nd quarter of 1951 in the Leeds, W...
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Catherine Elizabeth Hodge
Employed at the Silvertown Brunner Mond works and killed in the 1917 Silvertown explosion. Imperial War Museum has a page, and there we learnt that she was a 17-year old munitions worker.
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