Leah Dearl
Drowned in the 1898 HMS Albion disaster, aged 23. Buried in grave 3 at the memorial in East London Cemetery.
Drowned in the 1898 HMS Albion disaster, aged 23. Buried in grave 3 at the memorial in East London Cemetery.
Philippine de Gérin-Ricard was born on 4 October 1992 in Nimes, Gard, France. She was the sixth of the seven children of her parents, Pierre Christian Marie de Gérin-Ricard (b.1954) and Anne Boudet...
Born Brazil. Electrician. Shot dead in a tube carriage by counter-terrorist police officers hunting for would-be suicide bombers who had attempted to attack the London transport system the day be...
Died in a fire at 423 Hackney Road on the night of 19/20 April 1902. For more details see our page for the fire.
The ground floor of 18 Denmark Place was used for storing hotdog carts. Above were two unlicensed nightclubs with no emergency exits: The Colombian, a Salsa club, was on the first floor; The Spanis...
See Denmark Place arson attack for information about the venue and the event. It is thought more than 150 people were inside the building when the attack happened. 37 died and 23 were injured. T...
Group, Tragedy, Bolivia, Colombia, Libya, Mauritius, Scotland, Spain
United Kingdom citizen who died in the terrorist attacks in America on 11 September 2001. Dennis Butcher was born on 13 July 1958, the only son of Richard Dennis and Patricia M. Dennis née Butcher...
Role on the lost expedition: Officer on SS Erebus. See John Franklin.
The Deutschland was an iron passenger steamship of the Norddeutscher Lloyd line, built by Caird & Company of Greenock, Scotland in 1866, registered in Hamburg Germany. Built as an emigrant pass...