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Person    | Male  Died 10/9/1940

William Downes

Categories: Emergency Services

War dead non-military, WW2 i

Commemorated on a memorial as being a civilian who was killed in WW2. Includes mercantile marines and emergency services personnel.

William Downes

Auxiliary fireman killed in an air raid on Poplar

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William Downes

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Poplar firemen

AFS London In memory of fifteen members of the Auxiliary Fire Service killed...

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Major F. W. Jackson, CBE, DSO

Major F. W. Jackson, CBE, DSO

A contributor to WW2 Talk is researching this man: " ... my grandfather was in the RASC during WW1. He joined the London Fire Brigade in 1920 and was the Chief Fire Officer for London during the Bl...

Person, Emergency Services

1 memorial
A. J. Sellers

A. J. Sellers

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.

Person, Emergency Services

1 memorial
Sidney Lewis

Sidney Lewis

Soldier. He enlisted in the East Surrey Regiment in August 1915 at the age of twelve, and fought in the Battle of the Somme in 1916, then aged thirteen. In the 106th Machine Gun Company of the Mach...

Person, Armed Forces, Emergency Services, Austria, France

1 memorial
Denis Gerald Fitzgerald

Denis Gerald Fitzgerald

Auxiliary Fireman Denis Gerald Fitzgerald was born on 20 June 1912 in Croydon, Surrey, the son of William Fitzgerald (b.1886) and Mabel Annie Fitzgerald née Theobald (1887-1958). He was baptised on...

Person, Emergency Services

War dead non-military, WW2
2 memorials