Nineteen men were killed 63 years ago today
A memorial was held in Glasgow to commemorate brave firefighters who lost their lives in a blaze 63 years ago.
The tragedy resulted in the largest peacetime loss of life suffered by fire and rescue services in Britain, with nineteen men killed - fourteen from the Glasgow Fire Service and five from the Glasgow Salvage Corps.at Glasgow Necropolis, led by SFRS chaplains Rev Gordon Armstrong and Father Jim Thomson.
"For many of us, gathered here 63 years later, we pay tribute to each of them as professional firefighters and colleagues, but they were also fathers, husbands, brothers and sons. Today's memorial was tinged with even greater sadness after the recent passing of firefighter Barry Martin following a fire in the former Jenner department store in Edinburgh in January.
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