| Description | Table of statistics for Poplar Borough for World War II. Gives numbers of different types of bombs dropped, houses damaged, people killed (763), seriously injured (1322), and slightly injured (3295) [i.e. those treated at Council First Aid Posts or by Wardens; does not include those treated at local hospitals].
Table of statistics for Stepney Borough for World War II. Gives number of different types of bombs dropped, houses damaged, people killed (899), seriously injured (1411), and slightly injured (2650).
Notes on numbers of civilian war dead for Poplar, with copy of inscription from memorial garden (mentioning the '747 people who were killed by the enemy bombing in Poplar').
Note with numbers of civilian war dead buried at Tower Hamlets Cemetery, 4 May 1948. |