300 people were sheltering during an air raid under this arch. 68 died and 175 were injured. Many were killed by the 10 tonne steel doors that were at each end of the shelter. It is said that some of the dead were never recovered and their remains were effectively buried where they fell.
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Stainer Street Arch Bombing
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Stainer Street Arch Bomb
Stainer Street Arch Bombing On the night of 17th February 1941 a bomb fell on...
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Cyril Richard (Rick) Rescorla
United Kingdom citizen who died in the terrorist attacks in America on 11 September 2001. Colonel Cyril Richard Rescorla was born on 27 May 1939 in Halye, Cornwall. He was a son of Stephen Douglas...
Person, Armed Forces, Emergency Services, Tragedy, Africa, Cyprus, USA, Vietnam
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George Edgar Oliver Wenborn, Edward Medal
Employed at the Silvertown Brunner Mond works and killed in the 1917 Silvertown explosion. Imperial War Museum page.
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Arthur Edis Dean, C.B.E., M.A., MLitt.
Arthur Edis Dean was the 3rd Warden of Goldsmiths' College 1927-50. He played a major part in the reconstruction of the college after it was bombed in WW2. While it was previously known as Goldsmi...
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Alistair David Berkley
Alistair David Berkley was born on 11 April 1959, the eldest of the three children of John Barrie Berkley (1927-2018) and Jean C. Berkley née Blair (b.1930). His birth was registered in the 2nd qua...
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