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
Alice Yates
Civilian killed in the crash of Hampden bomber P4399. Our colleague Andrew Behan has kindly researched this woman: Alice Yates was born on 25 September 1899, the daughter of Edward Thomas Yates an...
War dead non-military, WW2
1 memorial
Abdulaziz El-Wahabi
Abdulaziz El-Wahabi was born on 1 December 1964 in Larache, Morocco. He moved to the UK with his parents when he was 9 years old and in 1995, in Morocco, he married Faouzia Rami, who was also Moroc...
1 memorial
Dudgeon's Wharf explosion
J. & W. Dudgeon were shipbuilders on the Thames. The company passed through several hands, eventually becoming a large complex of oil storage tanks, but retaining Dudgeon's name. Amazingly they...
2 memorials
James Gardiner
Crew member of the 'Olga'. Died during the voyage bringing Cleopatra's Needle to London.
1 memorial
John Williams
"Martyred" missionary. Born Tottenham. Trained as a foundry worker and mechanic. In 1817 the London Missionary Society sent him and his wife to the Pacific Islands where they took the good word to ...
1 memorial
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