Group    From 1/10/1918 

Fire Brigades Union

From their website: "The FBU is one of the UK’s oldest specialist trade unions, with a proud history. Since 1918 the union has supported firefighters, influenced fire safety policy and won improved pay, terms and conditions for its members."

At Remembering our Fallen Heroes they have a long list of names under the title 'In the line of duty'.

See also Firemen Remembered.

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This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Fire Brigades Union

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Colin Townsley - red plaque

Unveiled on the 34th anniversary of the fire and Townsley's death.

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Dudgeon's Wharf explosion - red plaque

Unveiled on the 50th anniversary of the fire.

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Faust and Meere - E2

From FBU: "The first memorial plaque to honour the lives of firefighters who ...

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Fourt-Wells + Stocking

To mark the 60th anniversary of the fire this plaque was unveiled, on one of ...

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Hamish Pettit

Honouring the bravery and sacrifice of Hamish Pettit of the London Fire Briga...

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Other Subjects

Thompson James Filmer

Thompson James Filmer

Thompson James Filmer is the 1st on the left of the seven boys sitting in the photograph of the scout troop. He was born on 28 January 1900, the eighth of the eleven children of John Apps Budds Fi...

Person, Children, Community / Clubs, Tragedy

2 memorials
Hoxton Hall

Hoxton Hall

Built 1863 as Mortimer's Music hall. 1866 MacDonald took it over but in 1871 following complaints it lost its performance licence.  Bought in 1879 by rich Quaker philanthropist William Isaac Palmer...

Building, Community / Clubs, Music / songs, Religion, Theatre

1 memorial
Empire Memorial Sailors' Hospital

Empire Memorial Sailors' Hospital

Built following an appeal (largely organised by women) throughout the British Empire. It provided 205 single cabins for homeless merchant seamen in London, and by 1929 had accommodated over a milli...

Building, Community / Clubs

1 memorial

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John Lewis

John Lewis

Retailer. Born at Town Street, Shepton Mallet, Somerset. He worked in several drapery firms before opening his own business at number 132 (later 286) Oxford Street in 1864. In 1906 he walked from h...

Person, Commerce

1 memorial