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The Gillingham Fair fire disaster (also known as the Fireman's Wedding disaster) occurred on 11 July 1929 in Gillingham, Kent, England, when a firefighting demonstration went wrong, and resulted in the deaths of 15 men and boys.
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 ...
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]
Gillingham (/ ˈ dʒ ɪ l ɪ ŋ əm / ⓘ JIL-ing-əm) is a town in Kent, England, which forms a conurbation with neighbouring Chatham, Rochester, Strood and Rainham. It is the largest town in the borough of Medway and in 2020 had a population of 108,785.
Nelson was trying to extinguish pockets of fire on the third floor when it collapsed and he fell 40 feet (12 m) to his death. [80] Albert Joseph Nicholls: 56: Gillingham Fire Brigade: W: 11 July 1929: The Gillingham Fair fire disaster; see listing under Francis Bull Cokayne. [32] Roderick Nicholson: 43: Tayside Fire and Rescue: W: 4 December 1995
Gillingham, Kent, England. Died: 16 January 2003 (aged 95) London, England. Occupation: Journalist: Barbara Wace (4 September 1907 – 16 January 2003) was a British ...
Born in Gillingham, Medway, [2] Douglas took the Scottish Triple Qualification (LRCP(Edin), LRCS(Edin), LRCPS(Glas) in 1898. He was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Royal Army Medical Corps on 28 July 1899, [3] and travelled to South Africa following the outbreak of the Second Boer War three months later.
Hector Bertram Gray, GC, AFM (6 June 1911 – 18 December 1943) was an officer of the Royal Air Force, and a member of the British Army Aid Group, who was posthumously awarded the George Cross for "most conspicuous gallantry" in resisting torture after the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong in 1941.