These were used initially by the Royal Air Force Bomber Command and the German Luftwaffe in 1940-41. They acted as blast bombs and were capable of killing up to 100 people.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
These were used initially by the Royal Air Force Bomber Command and the German Luftwaffe in 1940-41. They acted as blast bombs and were capable of killing up to 100 people.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Parachute mines
Parachute mines were used in the early 40s; the end of the war was characteri...
Born Frankfurt, Germany. Died of typhus at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany.
Person, Children, Seriously Famous, Tragedy, Germany, Netherlands
Founded by wealthy German businessmen and artisans who left the City of London for the relative peace of Forest Hill. Temporary accommodation was used from 1875 until this pictured church was bu...
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Civil engineer. Born at 50 Ferdinand Strasse, Hamburg. Worked with his father William Lindley on a number of engineering projects, including the Warsaw waterworks and the sewerage system in Prague,...
Catharine Gutheil was born on 12 July 1864 in St Johannisberg, Rhine Province, Germany, the daughter of Freidrich Gutheil (1836-1920) and Elisabetha Gutheil née Schwenk (1842-1916). Her brother, P...