Subjects  |  Tragedy

Marco Lam

Person, Tragedy

Veronica Lam

Person, Tragedy

Gustav Landauer

Anarchist theorist. Born Germany. Also translated William Shakespeare into German. Beaten to death by soldiers while under arrest in Munich. Film director Mike Nichols is his grandson.

Person, Politics & Administration, Tragedy, Germany

John Lane

Role on the lost expedition: Officer on SS Terror. See John Franklin.

Person, Exploring, Tragedy

Police Sergeant Noel Lane

Andrew Behan has researched this man: Police Sergeant Noel Joseph Lane was born on 7 November 1955, the son of Ernest George Lane and Mary Teresa Lane née Christmas. His birth was registered in the...

Person, Armed Forces, Tragedy

Jane Langford

Drowned in the 1898 HMS Albion disaster, aged 21. Buried in grave 1 at the memorial in East London Cemetery.

Person, Tragedy

Robin Blair Larkey

United Kingdom citizen who died in the terrorist attacks in America on 11 September 2001. Robin Blair Larkey was born on 24 December 1952 in Ilford, Essex. He was the son of Blair Kenneth Larkey (...

Person, Tragedy, USA

Maria Nieves Larracoechea

Maria Nieves Larracoechea was born on 3 March 1949 in Bilbao, Spain. Both our Picture Source and the Clipper Crew website gives more information about her including that she was known as 'Nieves' ...

Person, Aviation, Tragedy, Scotland, Spain

Michele Latour

Our colleague Andrew Behan: reports a marriage between Michele Latour and a Patrick P. Folan in the first quarter of 1978 in Islington. Guardian, 1 July 1999: Workmen found a body at the site of t...

Person, Tragedy

Driver Lauchlan

Royal Engineer killed by an exploding bomb while assisting in the attempt to disarm it. Andrew Behan has kindly carried out some research on this man: John M Lauchlan was born about 1920 the son o...

Person, Armed Forces, Tragedy