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World War I
INJURIES 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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1,236 |
121 |
1,650 |
400 |
504 |
30 |
THE DATES AND LOCATIONS OF INJURY IN DOVER BY ENEMY ACTION
370 bombs, 85
shells: approximately 26 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.
image - a
German artist's depiction of the first ever bomb raid on English
soil
CIVILIANS
1914
| Date |
Name |
Injury |
Location |
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24 December |
Mr Banks |
bruises when knocked out of a tree |
Terson’s Garden, Leyburn Rd (he working in neighbouring
garden of St.James’s Rectory cutting holly for decoration) |
1916
| Date |
Name |
Injury and Notes |
Location |
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23 January
|
James Browning |
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bomb came through the roof and exploded in the upper
room, Mr Sladden killed |
Red Lion Pub, St. James’s Street |
| George Gambrill |
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| Richard Willis |
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| Daisy Marlow (14) |
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bomb hit wall at back of Cottages, fragments hit the
children, also Mrs Philpott in bed in an upstairs room |
Golden Cross Cottages |
| Grace Marlow (10) |
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| 3rd girl child |
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| Julia Philpott (71) |
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2 Golden Cross Place |
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19 March |
Maude Lloyd |
right arm amputated, left seriously hurt, also broken
jaw |
bomb fell in the back of the workshop, Mrs James
killed |
Barwick’s Workshop, Northampton Street |
| Florence Collier |
slight/or leg amputated? |
| Sister Vincent |
injured by glass |
bomb exploded on roof |
Convent and Home, Eastbrook Place |
| W J Burford |
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New Mogul Inn, Chapel Place |
| Joseph W. Mickle |
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2 Clyde Villas, Church Road |
| J Nichols |
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| Mr Clarks |
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20 May |
Mrs Bridges Bloxaham |
struck by bomb fragment in her bedroom, level with
the road |
bomb exploded in the middle of the road |
Military Hill |
1917
| Date |
Name |
Injury and Notes |
Location |
| 2 September |
Mrs Daisy Warman
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slightly hurt |
a bomb fell on the roof of the cottages,
but blew the wall of the bedroom out, rather than expending its energy
inside the room |
18 Castlemount Cottages |
| Leslie Starham |
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| John Wilson |
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| Mrs Sergent |
detained in hospital |
lived at no 6 - was she the woman blown bodily out of
her cottage? |
Prospect Cottages/Maison Dieu Post Office |
| Mrs Knight (King?) |
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| 4 September |
Mr. G. Smith |
leg broken: his wife and father-in-law (Mr Little) died |
a bomb smashed the backs of nos 4 and 6 Widred Road |
4 Widred Road |
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Mrs Voller |
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6 Widred Road |
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Master Voller |
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Mrs Hollands |
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15 Widred Road |
| 24 September |
Miss Pilcher |
fractured thigh |
bomb fell in the garden of no 10 five or six yards from the windows;
the ladies were in the lower front
room |
Miss Pilcher's Shorthand Class, 10 Folkestone Road |
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Miss Greenland |
lost an eye |
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4 other ladies |
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| Mr Keates' sister-in-law | | bomb fell in back yard |
40 Glenfield Road |
| a boy |
bowled over and over by a bomb that exploded near him
- remained deaf for some time |
might this have been Master Voller? |
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1918
| Date |
Name |
Injury
and Notes |
Location |
| 16 February |
Willie Boorman (15) |
badly damaged leg and shrapnel in his body |
shelling from a vessel outside the harbour, the shell
went through Mr Shovelier's house and burst in the children's bedroom |
4 Cowgate Hill |
| Sidney Boorman (9) |
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| Amelia Boorman (11) |
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| Mr F C Shovelier |
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| 12 March |
Miss Joad |
slight |
Priory Hill Villas |
SERVICE PERSONNEL
1916
| Date |
Name |
Location |
| 19 March |
eleven men |
5th Batt., Royal Fusiliers, Northfall Meadow Hutment |
| 20 May |
Deckhand James Harvey |
HM Drifter EES, Commercial Quay, wounded by splinter of bomb as he
stood on deck |
| 12th August |
five soldiers on parade
RNAS man |
Fort Burgoyne, injuries slight
near airsheds by East Cliff, slight injury to leg |
1917
| Date |
Name |
Location |
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22 August |
three men |
32nd Training Reserve Battery, Dover College |
| 31 October |
unnamed seaman |
Prince of Wales Pier |
1918
| Date |
Name |
Location |
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23 February |
two soldiers |
old Convict Prison, Langdon Battery |
OTHER
1915
| Date |
Name
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Location |
| 10th August |
trawlerman |
in the harbour, injured after bomb fragments pierced
sides of trawler |
dates and locations
kindly supplied by Mark Frost, Dover
Museum, further and additional information by Maggie S-K
statistics Dover Express, 20 December 1918 and 14 February 1919
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