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An inquest was held on 14 December 1951 at the Royal Naval Hospital in Gillingham, where many of the injured were being treated, before the North-East Kent Coroner. The jury returned a verdict of accidental death. The coroner said that he believed that Lieutenant Carter and the other witness, George Thomas Dixon, were probably mistaken about ...
A fire rescue demonstration structure, Gillingham Park (undated) Each summer in the 1920s, a fair was organized in Gillingham Park to raise funds for the local St Bartholomew's Hospital. The traditional highlight of the event, which took place at the end of the festivities, was a demonstration of firefighting and rescue by the Gillingham Fire ...
July 11 – Gillingham Fair fire disaster, Kent, England, killed 15 when firefighting demonstration went wrong. September 20 – Study Club nightclub fire , Detroit, Michigan, killed 22. December 31 – Glen Cinema disaster , Paisley , Scotland, killed 71.
John Hartnell was born in Gillingham, Kent to a family of shipbuilders. [2] His parents were Thomas and Sarah (maiden name: Friar, born 1796) Hartnell who were married at Frindsbury, in the Medway Towns area of Kent, on 9 October 1815, and with whom he was living in Gillingham at the time of the census of 1841. [3]
Attacked in Sheerness, died in hospital in Gillingham (both in Kent) 56-year-old Millward was attacked with a blunt instrument on the night of 12/13 January at her ground floor flat in Hope Street. No thievery was committed there, and the front door had been forced open. Fresh information led to six men being apprehended in 1992. [115] [78]
In the days since, guns have killed at least 2244 more people. Chicago has seen more recent gun deaths than any other city in the U.S. In a speech there, President Obama said "too many of our children are being taken away from us" as a result of gun violence.
A Portage County grand jury has indicted an Arizona man in the Nov. 21 shooting deaths of a woman and her unborn child in Kent.. Dawan Rahman Wilson, 44, is charged with four counts of aggravated ...
Gillingham Fire Brigade: W: 11 July 1929: The Gillingham Fair fire disaster; every year at the Gillingham Fete, the Gillingham Fire Brigade had a mock three-story house built in which one fireman would play a bride and another the bridegroom. They would entertain a crowd inside the house and deliberately set a small fire from which everyone ...