Commissioner in the St John Ambulance Brigade, Metropolitan Corps, 1891-1927. Knight Grace in the Order of St John.
The 1904 publication "St Martin-le-Grand, Vol. XIV" contains an article written by Winny "On the Rocks at Bolt Tail" about a steamer running aground near Plymouth and how the passengers are assisted to abandon ship.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
W. Humphris Winny, OBE, AMIEE
Despite its appearance this memorial does not commemorate those who died in w...
Died in a fire at Lots Road SW. Our colleague, Andrew Behan, was able to find very little about this man apart from the fact that when his death was registered in the 4th quarter of 1904 in the Ke...
Died in a fire at St Stephens Hospital, Chelsea. Jeremiah Donovan was born on 10 March 1905 in Battersea, London, one of the six children of Jeremiah Donovan (b.1868) and Mary Donovan née Cunningh...
William Rea Edwards was Superintendent Secretary in the St John Ambulance Brigade, Metropolitan Corps, 1892-1900. Knight Grace in the Order of St John. Inver Museum has a photo of a Rea-Edwards mo...
Person, Emergency Services, Medicine, Politics & Administration
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.
Robert Alfred Delamaine was born in Deptford, London, on 2 January 1916, the sixth of the nine children of John William Delamaine (1879-1951) and Alice Ann Delamaine née Smith (1881-1953). His birt...
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