Auxiliary fireman killed in an air raid on Poplar
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Thomas Charles Aldsworth
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Poplar firemen
AFS London In memory of fifteen members of the Auxiliary Fire Service killed...
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G. C. Thornton
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
Leslie T. Healey
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 Leslie Thomas Healey was born...
War dead non-military, WW2
1 memorial
Norman R. C. Mountjoy
Auxiliary Fireman Norman Richard Charles Mountjoy was born on 5 March 1911 in Brockley, London, the son of George Mountjoy (1885-1948) and Lily Mountjoy née Deex (1895-1954). The 1911 census shows ...
War dead non-military, WW2
1 memorial
James Braidwood
Firefighter. Born Edinburgh where he formed the world's first municipal fire brigade. In 1832 he became the first Superintendent of the London Fire Engine Establishment, the precursor to the London...
2 memorials
Temporary Leading Fireman Stephen Thomas Maynard
Temporary Leading Fireman of Poplar Fire Station who died, aged 26 years, fighting a fire aboard the petroleum gas tanker the M. V. Rudi M, at Limehouse Basin on 25 January 1980. 50 firemen had bee...
3 memorials
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War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Phyllis Pearsall
Map-maker. Born Phyllis Isobel Gross at Budapest, Court Lane Gardens, Dulwich. She said in her memoirs, that her inspiration for producing the London A - Z was because she was unable to find the lo...
2 memorials
Patrick Troughton - E6
E6, Barking Road, 39 - 41, The Who Shop
The Who Shop was established in 1984 and sells a vast variety of 'Whovian' merchandise. It also has a Doctor Who museum. Blue plaques to...
2 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
Faust and Meere - E1
E1, Commercial Road, Fire station
After we'd posted this our colleague Andrew Behan added some biographical details for the two men.
2 subjects commemorated
Ray Strachey
Feminist, Liberal politician, mathematician, engineer, artist and writer. NUWSS, unsuccessfully stood for Parliament. Born as Rachel Pearsall Conn Costelloe. 1911 she married civil servant Oliver ...
1 memorial
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