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Person    | Male  Born 20/11/1949  Died 7/7/2005

Giles Vernon Hart

Giles Vernon Hart

Telecommunications engineer and trades union activist. Born in Khartoum, Sudan. While working as an executive officer at Trinity House lighthouse authority, he set up a union branch. In the 1980s, he was chairman, secretary and treasurer of the Polish Solidarity Campaign and was a prominent member of the British Humanist Association. Killed on the number 30 bus that was blown up in Tavistock Square in the July 2005 terrorist attacks.

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Giles Vernon Hart

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Bombs 7/7/05 - no.30 bus - plaque

In memory of those who were killed in the bomb attack on a route 30 bus near ...

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Bombs 7/7/05 - Tavistock Square

All the text is turned sideways, so it avoids being upside down, whether view...

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Giles Vernon Hart - W6

{Beneath the Solidarity emblem:} In memory of Giles Vernon Hart a lifelong ca...

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Hyde Park memorial to bomb attack 7/7/05

The 52 columns are 1m apart, 3.5m high and made of roughly textured stainless...

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Hindle House Community / Hindle House War Memorial Project

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St Olave Hart Street - Parish Hall

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