Crew member of the 'Olga'. Died during the voyage bringing Cleopatra's Needle to London.
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Michael Burns
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Cleopatra's needle - crew members lost
{A list of 6 names, oddly not in alphabetical sequence - see Subjects commemo...
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Granville Road V1 bomb
A V1 bomb fell on Granville Road early on a Sunday morning. 15 people were killed and 25 seriously injured. Twelve houses were destroyed and 100 others damaged. Holy Trinity church was badly damag...
1 memorial
Hither Green Zeppelin raid
This was the last Zeppelin raid on London. The airship had intended to bomb industrial sites, but had been blown off course. Normally these ships could be brought down by anti-aircraft fire, but it...
1 memorial
Bullivant’s Wharf - WW2 bomb
Isle of Dogs - Past Life, Past Lives is an excellent post about this event, with eye-witness accounts, from which we have drawn this brief summary: Bullivant & Co were wire rope-makers with a ...
1 memorial
Lidice massacre
Lidice is a village in the Czech Republic just north-west of Prague. Following the assassination of Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich, a high-ranking Nazi, the search for the culprits failed, desp...
1 memorial
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