Employed at the Silvertown Brunner Mond works and killed in the 1917 Silvertown explosion. Imperial War Museum has a page.
Also, "There appears to be a connection between Walter Mauger and another Brunner Mond employee who died in the explosion, Sidney Joseph Benstead. Mauger was born in Guernsey, Channel Islands, as was Sidney's mother, Julia. The two men, both in their mid twenties, were living at the same address, 26 Lindon/Liddon Road, Plaistow, when they died."
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Sidney Joseph Benstead
Probably erected no more than an year or so after the explosion, this monumen...
Senior Assistant 4th Engineer on the RMS Titanic. A full résumé of his life can be found on the Encyclopedia Titanica website. He is also commemorated on the Engineers Memorial, Andrews East Park, ...
From Environment Agency: “In 1874, the tide in the Thames rose 4 feet 3½ inches above Trinity mark, and inundated the south bank of the river along Lambeth, Bankside, and Rotherhithe, and even as ...
United Kingdom citizen who died in the terrorist attacks in America on 11 September 2001. Neil James Cudmore was born on 28 February 1962 and his birth was registered in the Greenwich registration...
It's not really clear that the date given is Andrew's date of death, it might be the date the ghost bike was erected.
For more information about this hero click on the picture of his plaque.
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