Auxiliary fireman killed in an air raid on Poplar
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William Downes
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Poplar firemen
AFS London In memory of fifteen members of the Auxiliary Fire Service killed...
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Charles Arthur Clutterbuck
Member of the ARP/Civil Defence Services - stretcher bearer. Andrew Behan has kindly provided this research: Charles Arthur Clutterbuck was born on 8 May 1908 in Millwall, the youngest of the nine...
Cyril Eugene Jacobs
Member of the ARP/Civil Defence Services - auxiliary ambulance driver. Andrew Behan has kindly provided this research: Cyril Eugene Jacobs was born on 29 July 1894. The 1939 England and Wales Re...
Ernest John Purdy
Member of the ARP/Civil Defence Services - stretcher bearer. Andrew Behan has kindly provided this research: Ernest John Purdy was born on 24 May 1913 in Poplar, a twin with his sister, May Floren...
Major A. C. Tunstall, MD, FRCS (ED)
Medical Board in the St John Ambulance Brigade, Metropolitan Corps, 1890-1915. Officer in the Order of St John.
Henry J. C. Carden
Auxiliary Fireman Henry John Clifford Carden was born on 23 December 1911 and his birth was registered in Bromley, Kent. He was the fourth child of John Henry Clifford Carden (b.1876) and Emily Jan...
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