Auxiliary fireman killed in an air raid on Poplar
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Richard Henry Butler
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Poplar firemen
AFS London In memory of fifteen members of the Auxiliary Fire Service killed...
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Eyre Massey Shaw
Soldier and fire brigade chief. Probably born at Glenmore Cottage, Ballymore, Ireland. After a short military career, he was appointed Chief Constable of Belfast, being responsible for both the pol...
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Joan Mary Ridd
Auxiliary Fire Servicewoman killed in the air raid on Ricardo Street School. ScarletBoy has a page of information about Ridd.
Mervyn Peake
Artist and writer. Mervyn Laurence Peake was born on 9 July 1911 in Kuling, Dehua, Fujian, China, the younger child of Ernest Cromwell Peake (1874-1950) and Amanda Elizabeth Ann Peake née Powell (...
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Leslie T. Healey
Fireman killed as a result of an air raid on Old Palace School, Bow, E3 on 20 April 1941. Our colleague Andrew Behan has kindly researched this man: Auxiliary Fireman Leslie Thomas Healey was born...
Arthur Henry Wenborne
Auxiliary Fire Serviceman killed in the air raid on Ricardo Street School.
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