Category Civilian

A civilian living in or around Hastings and St Leonards during WW2

Friend, Elsie

Elsie Friend

Name: Elsie Friend Died on: Thursday, 11th March 1943 Died at: 1 Aldborough Road & 14 Clarence Road, Bohemia, St Leonards Additional Information: Elsie Friend, aged 56, was killed when several Focke Wulf 190s and Messerschmitt Bf 109s strafed with…

Friend, Alice

Alice Friend

Name: Alice Friend Died on: Thursday, 11th March 1943 Died at: 1 Aldborough Road & 14 Clarence Road, Bohemia, St Leonards Additional Information: Alice Friend, aged 62, was killed when several Focke Wulf 190s and Messerschmitt Bf 109s strafed with…

Apps, Elizabeth Alice

Elizabeth Alice Apps

Name: Elizabeth Alice Apps Died on: Thursday, 11th March 1943 Died at: 1 Aldborough Road & 14 Clarence Road, Bohemia, St Leonards Additional Information: Elizabeth Apps, aged 71, was killed when several Focke Wulf 190s and Messerschmitt Bf 109s strafed…

Fowler, Ethel Alice

Hastings Cemetery

Name: Ethel Alice Fowler Wounded on: Tuesday, 2nd February 1943 Wounded at: 7 Moscow Road, Clive Vale, Hastings Additional Information: Ethel Fowler, aged 56, was wounded when an unknown number of planes dropped several 2,000lb bombs and 14 HE bombs…

Watson, Ann Rosemary

Hastings Cemetery WW2

Name: Ann Rosemary Watson Died on: Tuesday, 2nd February 1943 Died at: 7 Moscow Road, Clive Vale, Hastings Additional Information: Ann Watson, aged 4, was killed when an unknown number of planes dropped several 2,000lb bombs and 14 HE bombs…

Martin, Sarah

Hastings Cemetery

Name: Sarah Martin Died on: Tuesday, 2nd February 1943 Died at: 7 Moscow Road, Clive Vale, Hastings Additional Information: Sarah Martin, aged 64, was killed when an unknown number of planes dropped several 2,000lb bombs and 14 HE bombs on…

Lewry, Joyce Elizabeth

Hastings Cemetery

Name: Joyce Elizabeth Lewry Died on: Monday, 7th December 1942 Died at:  Westfield Additional Information: Joyce Lewry, aged 14 months, was wounded when a German plane machine gunned, seemly at random, houses and civilians in and around Westfield. She died…

Beeching, Joan Primrose

Hastings Cemetery

Name: Joan Primrose Beeching Died on: Monday, 7th December 1942 Died at: Plumtree Cottages, Sprays Bridge, Westfield Additional Information: Joan Beeching, aged 28, was wounded in her home when a German plane machine gunned, seemly at random, houses and civilians…

Walker, Beatrice Harriet

Hastings Cemetery WW2

Name: Beatrice Harriet Walker Died on: Monday, 21st December 1942 Died at: 140 Sedlescombe Road North, St Leonards Additional Information: Beatrice Walker, was killed when an unknown fighter plane machine gunned Sedlescombe Road North, Marline Avenue, Madeira Drive, St Helen’s…

Wilmshurst, Edith Ada

Hastings Cemetery

Name: Edith Ada Wilmshurst Wounded on: Saturday 17th October 1942 Wounded at: 43 Pevensey Road, St Leonards Additional Information: Edith Wilmshurst, aged 65, was wounded when two Fokker Wulf 109s dropped HE bombs on St Columbia’s Church, Warrior Gardens and…