At around 1:30pm on Sunday 12th March 1944 a single HE bomb was dropped by an unknown aircraft. It struck on or near numbers 22 and 24 Priory Road, Hastings, killing five and wounding three.
George Saunders, aged 52, his wife Ethel Saunders, aged 46 and his son, Byron, aged 5 were killed in their home at number 24. Their neighbours, Edward Badham, aged 70 and his daughter Dorothy, aged 49 were killed at number 22.