From Guinness Partnership History: "The biggest single loss of life at The Guinness Trust estates occurred in one night and at one estate – the 23 February 1944 at the Kings Road tenements. Bombers – likely heading to destroy the power station at nearby Lot’s Road – found the Guinness Trust Building as their target instead. Half of the 160 tenements were destroyed with the rest damaged. 59 people lost their lives that night, including Superintendent Caple and his wife."
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Kings Road tenements WW2 attack
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Guinness Trust Buildings WW2 attack
In memory of the fifty-nine persons who lost their lives on 23rd Feb. 1944.
Other Subjects
Dan Harris
Aged 28, returning from work to his home in Wanstead, hit by an Olympic media bus (ferrying journalists to the Olympic site). Died at the scene. Dan was a keen cyclist, having biked across Thailan...
1 memorial
Lucian Tapiede
Anglican from Papua New Guinea, was killed during the Japanese invasion.
1 memorial
1 memorial
Samuel Brown
Role on the lost expedition: Petty officer on SS Erebus. See John Franklin.
1 memorial
George Henry Hopkins
Employed at the Silvertown Brunner Mond works and killed in the 1917 Silvertown explosion.
1 memorial
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