Name: Emma Louisa Giles
Died on: Thursday, 11th March 1943
Died at: 52 Vale Road, St Leonards
Additional Information: Emma Giles, aged 64, was killed when several Focke Wulf 190s and Messerschmitt Bf 109s strafed with machine gun fire and dropped 25 HE Bombs on Silverhill Junction, St Matthew’s Schools, Strood Road, Alma Terrace, Alma Villas, Perth Road, Adelaide Road, Battle Road, Aldborough Road, Clarence Road, Salisbury Road, King Edward Avenue, Salisbury Road, Bohemia Road, Springfield Road, Combermere Road, Burry Road, Blomfield Road, Holmesdale Gardens and St Helens Road. One of the worse attacks on the town during the war, 37 other people died and 90 more were injured, 39 seriously.
Emma was the daughter of Daniel Giles.
I was unable to locate Emma’s grave marker in the main area of WW2 war graves, so she is likely buried else where on site. I will look to find it when I revisit Hastings Cemetery.
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Emma Giles was buried in the same plot as mother Helen in Hastings Cemetery, at JB A11. No visible grave marker etc. She had lived at 52 Vale Road with her sister Ellen Janet Matilda Giles. They were both school teachers. Their mother had died in the early 1920s.