![]() Westminster: Bombs are reported near the West End Central Police Station - fires at Boyle Street and Saville Row. It is reported that Warwick Road is blocked and Earls Court Railway Station closed. ![]() Kensington: At 2100 hours IB fell on the Sunbeam-Talbot Motor Works, the offices of which were damaged by fire but production is not likely to be affected. A certain amount of indiscriminate bombing was observed in Essex and Surrey, but these particular raids do not appear to have caused much damage or casualties. Many fires were started and hits obtained on railways. In the London area, activity further increased after 0400 hours and only at 0538 hours had the last raid recrossed the coast.ĭuring the night London was again the chief target and was continuously bombed from nightfall onwards. The approach was mainly from the South Coast but a few raids flew in from East Anglia. However, enemy activity in the London area continued and appeared to increase after 0300 hours. None of these raids appeared to proceed to the London area.Īt about 2230 hours, there was a temporary lull and after 2300 hours owing to returning friendly bombers, it became difficult to distinguish hostile tracks. At about the same time, raids from the direction of Holland crossed the North Norfolk coast and for the most part remained in East Anglia except for two which penetrated more deeply Westwards. These were followed by a sequence of other raids on the same course which were not, however, as numerous as usual. Reporting Authority:KENSINGTON, METROPOLITAN BOROUGHĬWGC Night Operations - 24th/25th September 1940Īt 1930 hours, raids started coming out of Le Havre making for Shoreham and London. Daughter of the late Arthur Beresford Cane, C.B.E., and Lucy Mary Cane, C.B.E., of 66 Elm Park Gardens, West Brompton. Its probable that Ellen died as a result of one of these incidents.Īdditional information:Driver, A.F.S., of 10 Earl's Terrace. JAMES'S) CEMETERY, Kentĭover suffered a resurgence of long-range shelling in September 1944, as the Germans took a last chance to fire before being forced back out of range. ![]() Reporting Authority:CUCKFIELD, URBAN DISTRICTĬWGC Ellen is buried at DOVER (ST. Injured September 1944, at Dover died at Hurstwood Park War Emergency Hospital, Haywards Heath. ![]() Daughter of Ellen Lydia Stirrup, of 36 Albany Place, Dover, Kent wife of Leonard Blackford, Merchant Navy. Reporting Authority:ENFIELD, URBAN DISTRICTĪdditional information:Firewoman, N.F.S. Injured 1 February 1945, at York Road died at Chase Farm Hospital. Daughter of George Henry and Louisa Baker, of 19 George Road, Chingford, Essex. Source: en./wiki/V-1_(flying_bomb)Īdditional information:N.F.S. At its peak, over a hundred V-1s a day were fired at southeast England, 9,521 in total, decreasing in number as sites were overrun until October 1944, when the last V-1 site in range of Britain was overrun by Allied forces.Īpproximately 10,000 were fired at England 2,419 reached London, killing about 6,184 people and injuring 17,981.[The greatest density of hits were received by Croydon, on the southeast fringe of London. Died at 17 Stanley Road.Īdditional information:at 23 Stanley Road.ĬWGC The first V-1 was launched at London on 13 June 1944, one week after (and prompted by) the successful Allied landing in Europe. Son of Cyril Leslie and Winifred May Slater. Injured at 25 Stanley Road died same day at Mayday Hospital.Īdditional information:of 17 Stanley Road. Daughter of the late Alexander and Helen Watt wife of William Cranston Henderson. Reporting Authority:CROYDON, COUNTY BOROUGHĬWGC This was as a result of a V1 attack which landed at 3.57am and would claim 4 lives.Īdditional information:of 25 Stanley Road. not all the women firefighters listed, (and presumably men as well), actually died during the war or even as a result of firefighting.Īdditional information:Firewoman, N.F.S. Although titled "Blitz" and dedicated in honour of those firefighters who gave their lives in the Defence of the Nation 1939 - 1945.
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