1917

Hugh McCoombs

Categories: Tragedy

Employed at the Silvertown Brunner Mond works and killed in the 1917 Silvertown explosion. Imperial War Museum has a page.

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Hugh McCoombs

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Silvertown explosion - monument

Probably erected no more than an year or so after the explosion, this monumen...

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Henry Herbert Gwynn

Henry Herbert Gwynn is 3rd from the right of the nine boys standing in the photograph of the scout troop. He was born in 1899 in Newington, Walworth, Surrey, the youngest of the six children of Ja...

Person, Children, Community / Clubs, Tragedy

2 memorials

Robert Durrant

For more information about this hero click on the picture of the pumping works plaque.

Person, Tragedy

1 memorial

Handley Page V1500 bomber crash

The aircraft had taken off from Cricklewood Aerodrome. At an altitude of approximately 700 to 800ft, all four of the engines were heard to stop, sending it crashing to the ground and catching fire....

Event, Tragedy, Transport

1 memorial

Elke Etha Kuhne

Elke Etha Kuhne was born on 17 March 1945 in Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany, the daughter of Dr Lothar Kuhne and Ruther Kuhne. Both our Picture Source and the Clipper Crew website gives more infor...

Person, Aviation, Tragedy, Germany, Scotland

1 memorial

Tata Duka

Non-British, killed by the Bali bomb.

Person, Tragedy

1 memorial