Name: William George Dowding

Died on: Thursday, 12th September 1940

Died at: 41 Alfred Road, Clive Vale, Hastings

Additional Information: William Dowding, aged 59, died when an unknown number of bombers dropped 150 incendiaries on Clive Vale, including on Alfred Road and Edmund Road. He was the husband of Mrs J Dowding. One other person was killed in the raid.

William Dowding and Jane Bumstead, his aunt who was killed in the same raid, are remembered on the same grave located in Hastings Cemetery in area BD D09.

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