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World War I
DEATHS IN BRITAIN THROUGH ENEMY ACTION
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airship raids |
aeroplane raids |
bombardments |
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civilians |
soldiers/sailors |
civilians |
soldiers/sailors |
civilians |
soldiers/sailors |
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498 |
58 |
619 |
238 |
143 |
121 |
THE DATES AND LOCATIONS OF DEATH IN DOVER BY ENEMY ACTION
370 bombs, 85
shells: approximately 26 people killed and 75 injured. In Dover 207 bombs and shells
were dropped on an area less than 3 square miles, a density of
over 69 impacts per square mile. London received the most bombs,
800, but over 144 square miles. This was a density of 5.5
impacts per square mile.
CIVILIANS
1916
| Date |
Name |
Age |
Location |
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23 January |
Harry Sladden |
43 |
Red Lion Pub, St. James’s Street |
| 19 March |
Miss Edith Stoker
Francis Hall,
Mrs
Jane James,
(seven people in total said to have been killed this day) |
23
7
47 |
131 Folkestone Road
Folkestone Road
40 Snargate Street, by
Barwick’s Workshop, Northampton Street |
1917
| Date |
Name |
Age |
Location |
| 22 August |
Miss Lucy
Wall
|
17 |
Admiral Harvey pub, Bridge Street |
| 2 September |
Unknown |
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had gone out during the raid to see what was happening (could this
have been Henry Long?) |
| 4 September |
Henry J H Long
Edward Little
Mrs Minnie Smith |
29
73
40 |
Priory Hill
4 Widred Road
4 Widred Road |
| 24 September |
Miss Dorothy Eleanor Wood
Mrs Annie Keates
Miss Evelyn Keates
Miss Ellen Maria Kenward,
Edwin Kenward
Mrs Jane Gould
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17
52
12
55
77
86
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Miss Pilcher's Shorthand Class, 10 Folkestone Road (died from
injuries on 2nd October)
40 Glenfield Road
40 Glenfield Road (died from injuries on 26th September?)
75 Crabble Hill (died from injuries on 12th October)
75 Crabble Hill (died from injuries on 13th October)
Crabble Hill (injured at no 77, died on 16th October at Maxton) |
1918
| Date |
Name |
Age |
Location |
| 16 February |
Miss Gertrude Boorman |
13 |
4 Cowgate Hill (shellfire) |
SERVICE PERSONNEL
1916
| Date |
Name |
Location |
| 19 March |
Frank Roseberry
Walter Venables
two others |
5th Batt., Royal Fusiliers, Northfall Meadow Hutment |
| 20 May |
Private H Sole
Dispatch Rider R E Parsons |
Grand Shaft Barracks (East Surrey Regiment)
Castle Hill, on bike carrying raid dispatches, collided with
anti-aircraft searchlight lorry. |
| 22 August |
two men |
32nd Training Reserve Battery, Dover College |
1917
| Date |
Name |
Location |
| 2 September |
2nd Lieut Henry Larcombe, |
5th Battery Royal Fusiliers, Northfall Meadow Hutment |
| 31 October |
Unnamed seaman,
Lt. Godfrey RNR (heart failure during raid?) |
Prince of Wales Pier |
OTHER
1915
| Date |
Name
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Location |
| 10th August |
two trawlermen |
in the harbour, died of fatal injuries after bomb
fragments pierced sides of trawler |
STRAYS
| Date |
Name
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Age
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Circumstances
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Location |
| Oct 1917 |
Edith Owers |
51 |
died early Sunday morning from
injuries and shock, caused by a missile (shell?) which
exploded outside her house, with a fragment coming
through a closed door and striking her |
Eastry registration area |
dates and locations
kindly supplied by Mark Frost, Dover
Museum, additions Marilyn S-K and Joyce Banks
statistics Dover Express, 20 December 1918, 17 January 1919, February 1919
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