We will remember them,
Station Officer - L. W. G. Wilson
Auxiliary Freman - F. Mitchell
who gave their lives at Soho Fire Station on 7th October 1940.
W1, Shaftesbury Avenue, Soho Fire Station, 126
These plaques are all inside and normally inaccessible but, for the 2018 Pride in London Soho fire station held an open day and we took our opportunity.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Soho Fire Station - Wilson and Mitchell
The picture source provides: "On the evening of Oct. 7, 1940, Soho fire stati...
Sorry, we've done no research on WW2, it's just too big a subject. But do vis...
Auxiliary Fireman - one of two men (with L. W. G. Wilson) who gave their live...
Station Officer - One of two men (with Frederick Mitchell) who gave their li...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Soho Fire Station - Wilson and Mitchell
In a 2012 European Trade Union Institute publication concerning firefighters'...
From Emergency we know that this plaque was erected on or before 19 July 2017.
In our photo the plaque can be seen on the wall to the right of the green fascia.
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