Employed at the Silvertown Brunner Mond works and killed in the 1917 Silvertown explosion. Imperial War Museum page.
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George Edgar Oliver Wenborn, Edward Medal
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Silvertown explosion - monument
Probably erected no more than an year or so after the explosion, this monumen...
Other Subjects
Thomas Blanky
Role on the lost expedition: Officer on SS Terror. See John Franklin.
1 memorial
George Claydon
Drowned in the 1898 HMS Albion disaster, aged 14. Buried in grave 2 at the memorial in East London Cemetery.
1 memorial
Richard Dawson
United Kingdom citizen who died in the terrorist attacks in America on 11 September 2001. Anthony Richard Dawson was born on 3 August 1969. He had three siblings, Roger, Louise and Jane and he liv...
1 memorial
George Thompson
Role on the lost expedition: Able seaman on SS Erebus. See John Franklin.
1 memorial
1 memorial
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Wilson Smithett & Co Ltd
Wholesalers of coffee, tea, cocoa and spices, located at 202 Blackfriars Road (2021). The Daily Mail has an interesting 2004 article about tea tasting at the Wilson, Smithett tea brokers office, S...
1 memorial
James Palmer Huffam, VC
Awarded the VC for his heroism on 31 August 1918, age 21, while serving in the Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding Regiment). "Twice he attacked machine gun posts, putting the first out of action and...
War served, WW1
1 memorial
Terrence Higgins Trust
A charity named for Terrence Higgins, one of the first people to die from the AIDS virus in Britain. It campaigns on and provides services relating to HIV and sexual health. A plaque at 333 Old Str...
1 memorial
Ewer Street bomb shelter
SE1, Ewer Street
We found each of these civilian casualties in the CWGC database and the make up is interesting: two children (aged 12 and 16); 12 women; ...
Civilian war dead | WW2
23 subjects commemorated
23 subjects commemorated
John Mowlem and Co. Ltd
One of the largest construction and civil engineering companies in the UK. John Mowlem (1788 – 1868) stonemason and builder founded a quarrying and construction company 'Mowlem, Burt and Freeman' i...
2 memorials
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