One of two killed by the Docklands IRA bomb. They were both workers in the newsagent’s directly opposite the bomb.
Our colleague Andrew Behan has researched this man and found the photo: John Alan Jeffries was born on 9 December 1964 in Lewisham, the son of John W. Jeffries and Betty Ellen Jeffries, née Pattison. He was killed working in a newsagent shop as a result of an IRA terrorist explosion at Canary Wharf, aged 31 years, on 9 February 1996.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
John Jefferies
Due to a warning the area was evacuated but this was incomplete and two men w...
Role on the lost expedition: Petty officer on SS Erebus. See John Franklin.
For more information about this hero click on the picture of her plaque.
Royal Engineer killed by an exploding bomb while assisting in the attempt to disarm it. Andrew Behan has kindly carried out some research on this man: Somewhat difficult to trace this chap with an...
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 sport...
Employed at the Silvertown Brunner Mond works and killed in the 1917 Silvertown explosion.
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