Auxiliary fireman killed in an air raid on Poplar
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Oliver Cromwell Cheater
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Poplar firemen
AFS London In memory of fifteen members of the Auxiliary Fire Service killed...
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Yvonne Fletcher
Semley, Wiltshire was the home of Yvonne Fletcher until she became a Police Constable in the Metropolitan Police. She was shot while on duty outside the Libyan Embassy in St James Square, London an...
2 memorials
William C. Plant
Fireman killed as a result of an air raid on Old Palace School, Bow, E3 on 20 April 1941. Our colleague Andrew Behan has kindly researched this man: Auxiliary Fireman William Charles Plant was bor...
War dead non-military, WW2
1 memorial
Colonel Sir Neil Gordon Thorne OBE
Trustee of The Memorial Gates Trust. In addition to our Picture Source and his Wikipedia page, our research shows that Colonel Sir Neil Gordon Thorne, OBE, TD, DL, was born on 8 August 1932 the so...
Person, Armed Forces, Emergency Services, Politics & Administration
1 memorial
Stn. O. Charles Fisher
Fire fighter who died as a result of a fire at Covent Garden.
1 memorial
A. H. Parsons
Either lost his life, or gave distinguished service to the London Fire Brigade, and was buried in the Highgate Cemetery plot between 1884 and 1955.
1 memorial
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Replaced the LCC. The GLC was abolished, some say, because Mrs Thatcher could not abide its left-wing politics, nor its leader, Ken Livingstone. On its 50th anniversary Diamond Geezer posted a goo...
241 memorials
Edward R. Murrow
American journalist lived in London during WW2. His broadcasts made from London during the blitz helped rally American public opinion to Britain's aid. Born North Carolina into a Quaker family. ...
1 memorial
John Constable
Painter. Born in East Bergholt, on the Essex/Suffolk border. From 1819 Constable spent much of his time in Hampstead and many of his finest paintings are of Hampstead landscapes. He died in Fitzrov...
5 memorials
Robert Maxwell
Publisher, politician and swindler. Born Ján Ludvík Hyman Binyamin Hoch, in Slatinské Doly (now Solotyino, Ukraine). He came to Britain after WW2 where he built up the Pergamon Press, acquired the ...
Person, Journalism / Publishing, Politics & Administration, Czechoslovakia
1 memorial
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