Person    | Male  Born 1856  Died 19/1/1917

James Bruce

Categories: Tragedy

James Bruce

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

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James Bruce

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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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Falklands War

Falklands War

Died: 649 Argentinians, 255 British, 3 civilian Falkland Islanders. 

Event, Armed Forces, Tragedy, Argentina

6 memorials
Communist victims

Communist victims

The countless innocent men, women and children from the Soviet Union and other East European states who were imprisoned and died at the hands of Communist governments after being repatriated at the...

Group, Tragedy

1 memorial
Beatrice Bishop

Beatrice Bishop

Drowned in the 1898 HMS Albion disaster, aged 24. Buried in grave 4 at the memorial in East London Cemetery.

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1 memorial
Tracy Ann Thomas

Tracy Ann Thomas

Non-British, killed by the Bali bomb.

Person, Tragedy

1 memorial
Arandora Star

Arandora Star

Deporting Italian and German prisoners of war the cruise ship was between Liverpool and Canada when it was struck by a torpedo from a German submarine. Of the 734 Italians on board, 486 died. Of th...

Vehicle, Tragedy, Germany, Italy

1 memorial

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Ronald Falk

Ronald Falk

Born Australia. Actor. We are really only guessing that this is the Ronald Falk on the list of donors for the Olivier statue. We published this item in October 2010. Our colleague, Andrew Behan, h...

Person, Benefactor, Cinema, Theatre, TV & Radio, Australia

1 memorial