At least two firemen from the Silvertown Fire Station responded to the fire at the TNT factory across the road. They lost their lives when that fire led to the Silvertown Explosion. The plaque refers also to firemen's families, which suggests that some of the firemen lived close to the station, within the range of the destruction caused by the explosion.
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Silvertown firemen
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Silvertown explosion - firemen
Dedicated to the memory of the firemen and their families killed and injured ...
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G. Hitchcock
Employed at the Streatham bus garage. Served and was killed in WW1.
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
War dead, WW2
1 memorial
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Captain Ernest Parfitt
Ernest Parfitt was born on 4 June 1887 at 16 Triangle, Old Kent Road, Peckham, Surrey (now Greater London), one of the six children of Walter Parfitt (1860-1939) and Emily Parfitt née Moore (1862-1...
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
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