| I have found out! From the book Hitler v Havering (if anyone has a copy its on Page 63!) there is an extract from the Roll of Honour showing nine members of the same family, the Gill family.
From a direct hit on a shelter in Brentwood Road on the same night as others were killed in Essex Road, Collire Row. On the 19th April 1941 fifty five civilians were killed as a result of bombing, twelve of whom were buried as unidentified and are buried in four mass graves in Romford Cemetery.
'To put that number in perspective (the book states) nearly a fifth of those killed in Havering during the war died on that one terrible night in April'
Andy
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In proud memory of
Lieutenant James Henry Woods 1st Airlanding Light Regiment
Killed in Action at Oosterbeek Arnhem 25th September 1944
Lieutenant William Stewart Donaldson 156th Battalion, Parachute Regiment
Killed in Action at Oosterbeek Arnhem 21st September 1944
Sergeant John Burge Glider Pilot Regiment
Killed in Action at Oosterbeek Arnhem 25th-26th September 1944
Corporal John Walter Bentley 12th Battalion, Parachute Regiment
Killed in Action on the Rhine 24th March 1945
LEST WE FORGET
'They are free-yes-but not entirely free; for they have a master, and that master is Law, which they fear much more than your subjects fear you. Whatever this master commands, they do; and his command never varies: it is never to retreat in battle, however great the odds, but always to stand firm, and to conquer or die'
(from The Peloponesian War?- Herodotus 490-425BC ) |