In memory of the British victims of September 11
On that fateful day of the eleventh of September ,2001,nineteen militants associated with the Islamic group al-Qaeda hijacked four airliners and carried out suicide attacks against US targets. Two planes were flown into the towers of the World Trade Center,a third plane hit the Pentagon,and the fourth plane crashed in a field in Pennsylvania.The attacks resulted in extensive death and destruction,triggering major US initiatives to combat terrorism and defining the presidency of George W.Bush.
Of the 2,606 Innocent souls who died that day in the World Trade Centre, 67 were British and in addition 16 foreign nationals with close ties to the UK also lost their lives.
UK Nationals who perished that September morning. We will remember them.
1. Sarah Ali, 35, from Balham, south west London, was at a conference on the 106th floor of the north tower of the World Trade Centre.
2. Andrew Joseph Bailey, 29, married with an eight-year-old daughter, was originally from Birmingham. He worked as a security supervisor for insurance brokers Marsh and McLellan on the 93rd floor of the north tower and lived and worked in New York.
3. Michele Beale, 37, a director with London-based Risk Waters, was attending a conference at the World Trade Centre in New York on September 11.
4. Jane Beatty.
5. Oliver Bennett, 32, was a journalist with Risk Waters publishers.
6. Graham Berkeley, 37, an IT consultant, whose parents live in Shrewsbury, was on board the United Airlines flight which plunged into the World Trade Centre’s south tower.
7. Paul Gary Bristow, 27, a publisher for Risk Waters group, was at a seminar in the Windows on the World restaurant on the 106th floor.
8. Geoffrey Thomas Campbell, 31, a Reuters employee from Great Billing, Northamptonshire, who had been due to take part in a conference hosted by English publishing company Risk Waters Group, in the World Trade Centre.
9. Jeremy Mark Carrington, 34, worked for Cantor Fitzgerald on the 105th floor of the WTC’s north tower. Brought up in Essex, he moved to New York 12 years ago, where he met his wife, Pattie. Jeremy had survived the 1993 WTC bombing. His mother, Catherine Ross, lives in Gillingham, Dorset.
10. Suria Clarke, 30, was working in the towers. Her brother Tom is from London.
11. Neil James Cudmore, 38, worked in the advertising department of a financial journal. He was believed to have been planning to marry colleague and fellow victim Dinah Webster.
12. Michael Joseph Cunningham, 39, originally from Ilford, Essex, was a broker for Eurobrokers in the South Tower. He lived in Princeton, New Jersey, with his wife Teresa, 35. His son Liam was 13 days old when the jets hit the World Trade Centre.
13. Gavin Anthony Cushny, 48, of the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides. He was working as computer consultant for Cantor Fitzgerald on 104th floor of the north tower.
14. Caleb Arron Dack.
15. Anthony Richard Dawson, of Southampton, had been attending a convention in one of the towers when the second plane struck.
16. Calvin Dawson.
17. Kevin Dennis, 43, a stockbroker, who lived in St John’s Wood, north London, before he moved to New York to work for Cantor Fitzgerald. He had been on the 101st floor of the north tower of World Trade Centre.
18. Melanie Louise Devere. The 30-year-old publishing assistant with Risk Waters grew up in Hayling Island, Hants, before moving to London.
19. Richard Anthony Dunstan.
20. Michael Egan, 51, the Hull-born vice president of multinational insurance company AON, is believed to have died as he helped colleagues escape from the south tower.
21. Christine Egan, 55, a nurse working in Canada, was visiting her brother’s office while on a week-long holiday in New York.
22. Robert Eaton, 37, a Cantor Fitzgerald broker, believed to have been working on the 105th floor of the north tower.
23. Godwin Forde, 38, a security guard for Morgan Stanley, was at work on the 42nd floor of the south tower.
24. Christopher Forsythe.
25. Boyd Gatton.
26. Andrew Clive Gilbert, in his thirties, originally from Ipswich, worked at the World Trade Centre.
27. Timothy Paul Gilbert, like his brother Andrew, was also in his thirties and working at the World Trade Centre. The brothers had been living and working in New York for some time.
28. Paul Gilbey, from Southend-on-Sea, a money trader with Euro Bank, worked on the 84th floor of the south tower. He and his wife had moved to the US eight years before the terrorist strike.
29. Ronald Lawrence Gilligan, 43, from Merseyside, is thought to have been behind his 103rd-floor desk at Cantor Fitzgerald when disaster struck.
30. Robert Halligan, originally from Kent.
31. Nicholas John, a 33-year-old banker from Swansea, had been due to attend a meeting at the World Trade Centre.
32. Christopher Jones.
33. Robin Blair Larkey, 48, from Surrey, worked for Cantor Fitzgerald. He left a wife and three young sons.
34. Steven Lawn, 29, from Broadstairs, Kent, moved to New York three years ago to work as a money dealer. He was on the 91st floor of the south tower. Parents John and Angela had just retired after running the family newsagents for 35 years.
35. Leon Lebor.
36. Michael William Lomax, 37, from Heaton Moor, Stockport, was working on the 93rd floor of the south tower when it was hit by one of the planes.
37. Mark Ludvigsen, was an employee of Cantor Fitzgerald.
38. Gavin MacMahon, 35, from County Durham, was working as an insurance executive on the 99th floor of one of the World Trade Centre towers.
39. Simon Percy Maddison, 40, worked for Cantor Fitzgerald. Lived with wife Maureen and three children in New Jersey. Originally from Harlow, Essex.
40. Keithroy Maynard.
41. Colin McArthur, 52, from Scotland, was vice-president of insurance company Aon Inc.
42. Christina Sheila McNulty.
43. John Moran.
44. Stephen Philip Morris, 31, whose parents live in Nantglyn, near Denbigh in Clwyd. He worked for a finance company in the World Trade Centre.
45. Alex Napier.
46. Marcus Neblett.
47. Christopher Newton-Carter, 52, from London, was an associate director for banker Sandley O’Neill. He was six floors from the top when the second plane plunged into his building.
48. Avnish Raman Patel, worked on the 93rd floor of the north tower of the World Trade Centre as a financial analyst with Fred Alger Management. Mr Patel, a single 28-year-old whose parents live in Clapham, south London, had lived in the US since he was 13.
49. Hashmukh Parmar.
50. David Alan James Rathkey, 47, from Maidenhead, Berks, was working on the 83rd floor of the North Tower. The father-of-three was a systems consultant who was married to an American and had lived in the country for 20 years.
51. Sarah Anne Redheffer, 35, from Enfield, north London, was working for Risk Waters on the 106th floor of the north tower when the first jet struck.
52. Rick Rescorla, 62, born in Hayle, Cornwall, was vice president for security for Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. He was helping his colleagues flee the World Trade Centre’s south tower.
53. Karlie Rogers, 25, a Sussex University graduate from London, worked for Risk Waters publishers.
54. Howard Selwyn, 47, from Leeds, was told to evacuate the south tower while on the phone to a colleague at his desk on the 84th floor.
55. Jane Simpkin.
56. Michael Stewart, 42, a banker, from Belfast.
57. Derek Sword, 29, from Dundee, was working for American finance firm Keefe, Bruyette & Woods when the second jet went into the south tower.
58. Rhondell Tankard.
59. Ian Clive Thompson, 43, was born in Hampshire.
60. Nigel Bruce Thompson, 30, from Sheffield, was working on the 105th floor of the twin towers for brokers Cantor Fitzgerald.
61. Simon James Turner, 39, was among seven other British employees working at the technology conference in the quarter mile-high building.
62. Benjamin James Walker, 41, was on the 91st floor of the north tower, working for Marsh McClennan insurance brokers. He had moved to New York five years ago from Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire. He left an American wife, Laura, and three children.
63. Dinah Webster, 50, was attending a conference on the 109th floor of the south tower. She and fellow victim Neil Cudmore worked in the advertising department of a financial journal.
64. Vincent Wells, 22, from Ilford, Essex, worked for Cantor Fitzgerald.
65. Kathryn Wolf.
66. Martin Wortley, 29, from Woolpit, Suffolk, was working as a dealer with Cantor Fitzgerald.
67. Neil Robin Wright, 30, an options broker from Tilbury, Essex, was also in the offices of Cantor Fitzgerald when the building was struck.
Foreign nationals with close UK ties
1. Carol Blake.
2. Bettina Brown.
3. Sal-uddin Choudhury.
4. Richard Cudina, 46, originally from Swanage, in Devon. He was a bond broker with Cantor Fitzgerald.
5. Kieran Gorman, 35, was a labourer.
6. Waleed Iskandar.
7. Yvonne Kennedy.
8. Bojan Kostic.
9. John Lozowsky.
10. Israel Pabon.
11. Edward Saiya, 49, whose brother Art is from Camberley, Surrey.
12. Joyce Smith, 55, worked for Cantor Fitzgerald. Her brother Roy Hudson is from Syston, Leics.
13. Vladimir Tomasevic.
14. Jonathan Uman, 33, worked for Cantor Fitzgerald.
15. James Walsh, 37, originally from Nottingham, worked for Cantor Fitzgerald.
16. Maudlyn White.
| Deaths by Area of Attack | Deaths |
| World Trade Center | 2,606 |
| Airlines | 246 |
| Pentagon Building | 125 |
| Hijackers | 19 |
| Total number of people who died in the 9/11 attacks | 2,996 |
| Casualties in the World Trade Center and Surrounding Area | Deaths |
| Residents of New York | 1,762 |
| Persons in North Tower (Tower 1) | 1,402 |
| Persons in South Tower (Tower 2) | 614 |
| Residents of New Jersey | 674 |
| Employees of Marsh Inc. | 355 |
| Firefighters | 343 |
| Employees of Aon Corporation | 175 |
| Port Authority police officers | 37 |
| Police officers | 23 |
| Paramedics | 2 |
| 1 firefighter was killed by a man who jumped off the top floors | |
| Casualties on the Airplanes | Deaths |
| American Airlines Flight 11 (North Tower) | 87 |
| United Airlines Flight 175 (South Tower) | 60 |
| American Airlines Flight 77 (Pentagon) | 59 |
| United Flight 93 (Shanksville, PA) | 40 |
| Casualties inside the Pentagon | Deaths |
| Military and civilian deaths | 125 |
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