An Anglican catechumen from South Africa who was killed by her animist parents at the age of 16. She had refused to stop visiting the missionaries who came to her town to convert them to Christianity.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Manche Masemola
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Sgt Robert Bentley
Aged 36, was shot dead after entering the house in Cutler Street where robbers were trying to break into the jewellers behind.
Jenny Carmichael
A bar worker, killed in the Ladbroke Grove rail disaster, aged 22. Andrew Behan has kindly carried out further research: Jennifer Marion Carmichael was born on 10 June 1977. Her father was a caret...
Anne Frank
Born Frankfurt, Germany. Died of typhus at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany.
Person, Children, Seriously Famous, Tragedy, Germany, Netherlands
Colin J. Townsley G.M., Station Officer
The officer in charge of Red Watch at Soho Fire Station. Died trying to rescue a woman from the blazing ticketing hall as the fire suddenly erupted. Fire-fighters attempting to re-enter the ticketi...
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Whinney, Son and Austen Hall
Architects active at least 1929 - 1977. 30 Cannon Street being their modernist masterpiece.
Soho Fire Station WW2 bomb
The picture source provides: "On the evening of Oct. 7, 1940, Soho fire station in central London took a direct hit during the Blitz, killing Station Officer William Wilson and Auxiliary Firefighte...
Jabez West
Campaigning working-man and temperance advocate. Son of a blacksmith from Princes Risborough, he came to Bermondsey in the 1830s and worked in the leather trade. Campaigned for political reform, th...
Denis Gerald Fitzgerald
Auxiliary Fireman Denis Gerald Fitzgerald was born on 20 June 1912 in Croydon, Surrey, the son of William Fitzgerald (b.1886) and Mabel Annie Fitzgerald née Theobald (1887-1958). He was baptised on...
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