Giles Vernon Hart was a British engineer and trade union

Trade union

A trade union, trades union or labor union is an organization of workers that have banded together to achieve common goals such as better working conditions. The trade union, through its leadership, bargains with the employer on behalf of union members and negotiates labour contracts with...

 activist.

Early life

Hart was born in Khartoum

Khartoum

Khartoum is the capital and largest city of Sudan and of Khartoum State. It is located at the confluence of the White Nile flowing north from Lake Victoria, and the Blue Nile flowing west from Ethiopia. The location where the two Niles meet is known as "al-Mogran"...

, Sudan

Sudan

Sudan , officially the Republic of the Sudan , is a country in North Africa, sometimes considered part of the Middle East politically. It is bordered by Egypt to the north, the Red Sea to the northeast, Eritrea and Ethiopia to the east, South Sudan to the south, the Central African Republic to the...

, when his father was head of English at Gordon College

University of Khartoum

The University of Khartoum ia a multi-campus, co-educational university located in Khartoum. It is the largest and oldest university in Sudan. UofK was founded as Gordon Memorial College in 1902 and established in 1956 when Sudan gained independence...

. He moved to England with his family when he was five years old, and attended Woodhouse Grammar School, now Woodhouse College

Woodhouse College

Woodhouse College is a single site state sixth form college situated between North Finchley and Friern Barnet on the eastern side of the London Borough of Barnet...

, and read Mathematics at Royal Holloway College.

Political campaigning

While working as an executive officer at Trinity House lighthouse authority, he set up a union branch.

In the 1980s, he was chairman, secretary and treasurer of the Polish Solidarity Campaign

Polish Solidarity Campaign

Britain's Polish Solidarity Campaign was a campaign in solidarity with Solidarity and other democratic forces in Poland. It was founded in August 1980 by Robin Blick, Karen Blick, and Adam Westoby, and continued its activities into the first half of the 1990s...

, the main British pro-Solidarnosc organisation, and edited a history For Our Freedom and Yours (1995).

Death

He died in the 7 July 2005 London bombings

7 July 2005 London bombings

The 7 July 2005 London bombings were a series of co-ordinated suicide attacks in the United Kingdom, targeting civilians using London's public transport system during the morning rush hour....

, when he was killed instantly when travelling to work on the number 30 bus, which was blown up in Tavistock Square

Tavistock Square

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.

Honours

In July 2005, he was posthumously awarded with the Polish Golden Krzyż Zasługi (Cross of Valor), and the Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland. He has also been honoured with a memorial in Ravenscourt Park

Ravenscourt Park

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, Hammersmith

Hammersmith

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, which was unveiled on 5 July 2008.