Albert Woodfox was an American known as one of the Angola Three (Robert King, Herman Wallace and Woodfox) former prisoners who were held at Louisiana State Penitentiary in solitary confinement for ...
Person, Law, Race Issues, Tragedy, USA
Hero. R.A.F (South African Artillery). On 27 December 1919 he dived into the Thames from the upstream footway of Hammersmith Bridge and saved a drowning woman. He contracted tetanus as a consequenc...
A project worker for a charity for homeless children. Killed in the Ladbroke Grove rail disaster, aged 40. Andrew Behan has kindly carried out further research: Simon Edward Wood was born on 30 Ju...
The thousands of building workers who have lost their lives at work. Researching one of these terrible events reminded us that we have found other memorials to people who died in 'accidents' at wo...
Role on the lost expedition: Able seaman on SS Erebus. See John Franklin.
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came along at which point it was renamed as World War One or the First World War. But the term was first used in print in 1920...
Sorry, we've done no research on WW2, it's just too big a subject. But do visit the picture source web site - it has a fascinating collection of maps. Â And we enjoyed these photos of current WW2 ev...
United Kingdom citizen who died in the terrorist attacks in America on 11 September 2001. Martin Michael Wortley was born on 21 November 1971 and his birth was registered in the Redbridge registra...
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