Person    | Male  Born 1866  Died 19/1/1917

Samuel Saunders

Categories: Tragedy

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

More information about Saunders on another IWM page.

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Samuel Saunders

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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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murder of 11 Israeli athletes at Munich Olympics

murder of 11 Israeli athletes at Munich Olympics

Early on the morning of 5th September 1972 eight members of Black September, a Palestinian terrorist organization, took hostage 11 members of the Israeli Olympic team.  By the end of the day all th...

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Execution Dock

Execution Dock

Execution dock is where, Frog blog says: "those condemned by the High Court of Admiralty were hung. It is not true they were all pirates, most were murderers or thieves." Its precise location is no...

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Role on the lost expedition: Able seaman on SS Terror. See John Franklin.

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1 memorial
Thomas Hartnell

Thomas Hartnell

Role on the lost expedition: Able seaman on SS Erebus. See John Franklin.

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