Person    | Male  Died 10/9/1940

William Wallis

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 Wallis

Auxiliary fireman killed in an air raid on Poplar

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William Wallis

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Poplar firemen

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

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Keith Blakelock

Keith Blakelock

Beaten and stabbed to death by a mob during large scale rioting. Posthumously awarded the Queen's Gallantry Medal. From an article in the Guardian: Constables Blakelock and Coombes were attacked ...

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1 memorial
Temporary Leading Fireman Stephen Thomas Maynard

Temporary Leading Fireman Stephen Thomas Maynard

Temporary Leading Fireman of Poplar Fire Station who died, aged 26 years, fighting a fire aboard the petroleum gas tanker the M. V. Rudi M, at Limehouse Basin on 25 January 1980. 50 firemen had bee...

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2 memorials
Frederick G. Parcell

Frederick G. Parcell

Fireman killed as a result of an air raid on Old Palace School, Bow, E3 on 20 April 1941. Our colleague Andrew Behan has kindly researched this man: Auxiliary Fireman Frederick George Parcell was ...

Person, Emergency Services

War dead non-military, WW2
1 memorial
Fireman Arthur William Miller
War dead non-military, WW2
1 memorial
Frank J. Endean

Frank J. Endean

Auxiliary Fireman Frank James Endean was born on 6 December 1904 in Bromley, Kent, the younger son of Frank James Endean (1880-1944) and Rose Endean née Taylor (1878-1949). His father was a Woollen...

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War dead non-military, WW2
1 memorial

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E. Rumney Smith

E. Rumney Smith

Churchwarden of St Marys Rotherhithe in 1886.

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Gerard Conyers

Gerard Conyers

Banker. Lived in Sheen. As Lord Mayor he decreed that on London Bridge carriages should drive on the left whereas, prior to this sensible ordnance, it was a free for all.

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1 memorial
Charles Arnold

Charles Arnold

We found nothing on this man (too common a name) and even our colleague Andrew Behan who normally digs up good stuff found very little with a certain connection to the plaque: On 29 September 1939...

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Thomas Challis

Thomas Challis

Alderman, Lord Mayor of London 1851, chair of the Executive Committee for the Great Exhibition Memorial.Born 92 Fore Street, Cripplegate. Died Baker Street, Enfield. His Lord Mayor's Show was ca...

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1 memorial
W R Lethaby

W R Lethaby

WC1, Southampton Row, St Martin's Art College

London County Council William Richard Lethaby, 1857 - 1931, architect and first principal of this school in 1896 - 1911.

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