Event    From 26/12/2004  To 26/12/2004

Tsunami in the Indian Ocean

More than 230,000 people died, 153 being British.

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Tsunami in the Indian Ocean

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Tsunami memorial

120-tonne block of granite, 4.1 metre cube with a corner removed. According...

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James Fraser

James Fraser

Junior Assistant 3rd Engineer on the RMS Titanic. A full résumé of his life can be found on the Encyclopedia Titanica website.  He is also commemorated on the Engineers Memorial, Andrews East Park...

Person, Engineering, Tragedy, Scotland

1 memorial
Sir Louis Stanley Johnson

Sir Louis Stanley Johnson

Solicitor and Conservative Party politician. Member of Hackney Council. Mayor of Hackney 1914-19. MP for  Walthamstow East 1918-24. Knighted 1920. Died by suicide with a gun to his head, at his hom...

Person, Politics & Administration, Tragedy

1 memorial
Eric Benfield, FRSA

Eric Benfield, FRSA

Eric Benfield was born on 9 June 1902 in Swanage, Dorset, the third of the four children of Charles Benfield (1866-1936) and Adelaide Benfield née Smith (1868-1943). His birth was registered in the...

Person, Literature, Peace, Sculpture, Tragedy

1 memorial
Bullivant’s Wharf - WW2 bomb

Bullivant’s Wharf - WW2 bomb

Isle of Dogs - Past Life, Past Lives is an excellent post about this event, with eye-witness accounts, from which we have drawn this brief summary: Bullivant & Co were wire rope-makers with a ...

Event, Tragedy

1 memorial
Alan Neve

Alan Neve

Alan David Neve's birth was registered in the fourth quarter of 1958 in the Surrey, South Western registration district. He was the elder son of Anthony W. Neve b.1932 and Moira Anne Neve née Emery...

Person, Cyclist, Tragedy

1 memorial