Remembering Today 1/7/40 Civilian: Frederick Blackstock

CL1 · Jul 1, 2016

BLACKSTOCK, FREDERICK

Rank:

Civilian

Date of Death:

01/07/1940

Age:

5

Regiment/Service:

Civilian War Dead

Reporting Authority:

WICK, BURGH OF, SCOTLAND

Additional Information:

of 10 Bank Row. Son of Fred and Jean Blackstock. Died at 10 Bank Row.

Peter Clare · Jul 1, 2016

CL1 said:

BLACKSTOCK, FREDERICK

Rank: Civilian Date of Death: 01/07/1940 Age: 5 Regiment/Service: Civilian War Dead Reporting Authority: WICK, BURGH OF, SCOTLAND Additional Information: of 10 Bank Row. Son of Fred and Jean Blackstock. Died at 10 Bank Row.
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Details of the above loss....

http://www.caithness.org/history/bankrowbombing/bankrowbombing.htm

The first bomb to fall in Wick was on July 1st 1940 and was the most serious attack. the war was less than a year old and there had been little bombing of mainland Britain. It was at the end of the period called the phoney war, when people did not know much about bombing. The London Blitz was still to come. The bomb fell in Bank Row at the end of a summer afternoon. It was the first recorded daylight bombing of Britain in the Second World War.

Harbour Area From The Air
The bomb fell during the school holidays when many children were out playing on the street in the Bank Row area. Because of the war the summer holidays in 1940 were extended from June 18th and went right on to October 1st. There were fears about collecting children together and the Bank Row bomb highlighted the danger of this. The death of 15 people which included 8 children shocked Wick. The children killed were Frederick Blackstock (5) Isobel Bruce (7) James Flett(7) Kenneth MacGregor 8) sisters Elizabeth Miller (5) and Amelia Miller(9) Donald Thomson (16) and John Wares (5). The adults killed were were Robert Mackenzie Seaforth Highlanders (30) Mrs P Mactavish (44) Mrs Isobel Mackenzie (25) (father, son, daughter and daughter-in-law) Mrs Mary Steven (44), William Smith, merchant (63) andDonald Waters ,fish curer (50).
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