Attending a ‘Person Shut in Lift’ at Moelwyn Hughes Court, he fell from the flat roof while making his way to the lift motor room. Aged 25.
O'Donovan was brought up in Harrow and was an avid sportsman. He and his brother married a pair of sisters. After getting married, he moved to Dunstable with his wife where they began raising their two children.
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Fm. Daniel Michael O'Donovan
Fm. Daniel Michael O'Donovan. 11.3.64, Hilldrop Lane, N7.
District Staff Officer in the St John Ambulance Brigade, No. 1 District, 1915-1948. Officer in the Order of St John.
Person, Emergency Services, Medicine, Politics & Administration
Either lost his life, or gave distinguished service to the London Fire Brigade, and was buried in the Highgate Cemetery plot between 1884 and 1955.
Born Poplar.  A firefighter in WW2 he became Chief Officer of the West Ham Fire Brigade. In 1955 he moved to Australia where he set up firefighting and safety centres in Australasia and in Beirut. ...
Auxiliary Fire Serviceman killed in the air raid on Ricardo Street School.
Corps Secretary in the St John Ambulance Brigade, Metropolitan Corps, 1887-1889.
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