At least two firemen from the Silvertown Fire Station responded to the fire at the TNT factory across the road. They lost their lives when that fire led to the Silvertown Explosion. The plaque refers also to firemen's families, which suggests that some of the firemen lived close to the station, within the range of the destruction caused by the explosion.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Silvertown firemen
Commemorated ati
Silvertown explosion - firemen
Dedicated to the memory of the firemen and their families killed and injured ...
Other Subjects
Canadian Firefighters
The idea of the fire fighters volunteering to assist Britain was developed between the British government and the then Canadian Prime Minister, Mackenzie King. The Canadian fire fighters museum web...
P. V. Crease
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
A. S. Ginger
Resident of Willesden who volunteered and died in the Anglo Boer War, 1899-1900.
Cecil Sewell, VC
Soldier. Born Cecil Harold Sewell in Greenwich. On 29th August 1918 at Fremicourt, France, he was in command of a section of Whippet light tanks. He crossed open ground under heavy machine-gun fire...
Artists Rifles
The 38th Middlesex (Artists') Rifle Volunteers was formed, in response to a threat of invasion by Napoleon III, by Edward Sterling in London with headquarters initially at Burlington House, where t...