Person    | Male  Died 19/1/1917

Walter Ernest Sharpe

Categories: Tragedy

Walter Ernest Sharpe

Employed at the Silvertown Brunner Mond works and killed in the 1917 Silvertown explosion.

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Walter Ernest Sharpe

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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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Kingston Hospital - flying bomb

Kingston Hospital - flying bomb

The bomb landed on a tennis court by the nurses’ home. It destroyed the outpatients'  department and badly damaged many other areas including the casualty department. On this 1940 map the building...

Event, Tragedy

1 memorial
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1 memorial
Corey James Paltridge

Corey James Paltridge

Non-British, killed by the Bali bomb.

Person, Tragedy

1 memorial
F. R. M. Crozier

F. R. M. Crozier

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

Person, Exploring, Tragedy

1 memorial
Captain, Sir John Franklin

Captain, Sir John Franklin

Born Lincolnshire. Royal Navy. Governor of Tasmania 1836-43. where there is also a statue. Left England in 1845 leading an expedition of 2 ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, to voyage the last unnav...

Person, Exploring, Tragedy, Arctic & Antarctic, Australia

3 memorials