Person    | Male  Died 10/9/1940

William Downes

Categories: Emergency Services

War dead non-military, WW2 i

Commemorated on a memorial as being a civilian who was killed in WW2. Includes mercantile marines and emergency services personnel.

William Downes

Auxiliary fireman killed in an air raid on Poplar

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William Downes

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Poplar firemen

AFS London In memory of fifteen members of the Auxiliary Fire Service killed...

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Victor Ronald Tidder

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Walter Abraham Wilson

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1 memorial
E. S. Abraham, MRCS, LRCP

E. S. Abraham, MRCS, LRCP

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1 memorial
Fm. Alfred Charles Smee

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