Field Marshal John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker,6th Viscount Gort,was a senior British Army officer. As a young officer during the First World War,he was decorated with the Victoria Cross for his actions during the Battle of the Canal du Nord. During the 1930s he served as Chief of the Imperial General Staff. He is best known for commanding the British Expeditionary Force that was sent to France in the first year of the Second World War,only to be evacuated from Dunkirk the following year. Gort later served as Governor of Gibraltar and Malta,and High Commissioner for Palestine and Transjordan.
Field Marshal Richard Michael Power Carver,Baron Carver,was a senior British Army officer. Lord Carver served as the Chief of the General Staff (CGS),the professional head of the British Army,and then as the Chief of the Defence Staff (CDS),the professional head of the British Armed Forces. He served with distinction during the Second World War and organised the administration of British forces deployed in response to the Mau Mau Uprising in Kenya and later in his career provided advice to the British government on the response to the early stages of The Troubles in Northern Ireland.
Field Marshal Peter Anthony Inge,Baron Inge,was a senior British Army officer. He was the Chief of the General Staff,the professional head of the British Army,from 1992 to 1994 and then served as Chief of the Defence Staff before retiring in 1997. Early in his military career he saw action during the Malayan Emergency and Operation Banner in Northern Ireland,and later in his career he provided advice to the British Government during the Bosnian War.
Field Marshal Francis Wallace Grenfell,1st Baron Grenfell,was a British Army officer. After serving as aide-de-camp to the Commander-in-Chief,South Africa,he fought in the 9th Xhosa War,the Anglo-Zulu War and then the Anglo-Egyptian War. He went on to become Sirdar (Commander-in-Chief) of the Egyptian Army and commanded the forces at the Battle of Suakin in December 1888 and at the Battle of Toski in August 1889 during the Mahdist War. After that he became Governor of Malta and then Commander-in-Chief,Ireland before retiring in 1908.
Field Marshal Sir Thomas Albert Blamey,was an Australian general of the First and Second World Wars. He is the only Australian to attain the rank of field marshal.
The London Fire Brigade (LFB) is the fire and rescue service for London,the capital of the United Kingdom. It was formed by the Metropolitan Fire Brigade Act 1865,under the leadership of superintendent Eyre Massey Shaw. It has 5,992 staff,including 5,096 operational firefighters and officers based at 102 fire stations.
General David Julian Richards,Baron Richards of Herstmonceux,is a retired senior British Army officer and Peer who was formerly the Chief of the Defence Staff,the professional head of the British Armed Forces. He succeeded Air Chief Marshal Sir Jock Stirrup in this role on 29 October 2010.
Sir Kenneth John Knight,is a retired British firefighter and public servant. From 2003 to 2007,he was the Commissioner of the London Fire Brigade and Commissioner for the London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority. From 2007 to 2013,he was the Chief Fire and Rescue Adviser for England.
Ronald James Dobson,CBE,QFSM,FIFireE is a retired senior British firefighter. He was the chief fire officer of the London Fire Brigade until 31 December 2016.
General Sir Nicholas Patrick Carter,is a retired senior British Army officer who served as Chief of the Defence Staff from June 2018 to November 2021.
Danielle Amara "Dany" Cotton,is a British retired firefighter. From 2017–2019,she served as the Commissioner of the London Fire Brigade and was the first woman to hold this position. She had previously been the Director of Safety and Assurance at the London Fire Brigade.
Stephen Dudeney is a retired British firefighter. He was a senior officer in the London Fire Brigade.
Brigadier Andrew Christopher "Andy" Massey OBE was a British Army officer who served in Oman,Dhofar and Northern Ireland. He was a commander of the 22 SAS Regiment before retiring as a Brigadier.
On 14 June 2017,a high-rise fire broke out in the 24-storey Grenfell Tower block of flats in North Kensington,West London,at 00:54 BST and burned for 60 hours. Seventy people died at the scene and two people died later in hospital,with more than 70 injured and 223 escaping. It was the deadliest structural fire in the United Kingdom since the 1988 Piper Alpha oil-platform disaster and the worst UK residential fire since the Blitz of World War II.
Leslie William Thomas Leete was an English firefighter who became chief fire officer of the London Fire Brigade from 1962 to 1970 –the first LFB chief to have served in every rank within the Brigade.
Sir Frederick William Delve,,was an English firefighter who became chief fire officer of the London Fire Brigade from 1948 to 1962,and was instrumental in the fire service's adoption of modern telecommunications technologies.
Sabrina Rachel Cohen-Hatton KFSM is a British firefighter,psychologist and writer. She is the Chief Fire Officer of the West Sussex Fire and Rescue Service. In 2019 she was selected as one of Marie Claire's Future Shapers and featured on Desert Island Discs.
The Commissioner of the London Fire Brigade,previously known as the Chief Fire Officer until c. 2000,is the head of the London Fire Brigade. Andy Roe has held the post since January 2020.
The Grenfell Tower Inquiry is a British public inquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire,which killed 72 people and destroyed Grenfell Tower,a residential building in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea,London,on 14 June 2017. It was ordered by Prime Minister Theresa May on the day following the fire.
Criticism of the response to the Grenfell Tower fire primarily consisted of condemnation of issues with the emergency response and fire safety regulation practices in the UK at the time. Broader political criticism was also directed at British society,including condemnation of the response by governmental bodies and UK politicians,social divisions,deregulation issues,and poor transparency overall.
