Remembering Today Casualty Details | CWGC MUIRHEAD, ERNEST RONALD Rank: Private Service No: 7344754 Date of Death: 22/12/1940 Age: 21 Regiment/Service: Royal Army Medical Corps Grave Reference: Sec. Q. Grave 1242. (Screen Wall. Panel 27). Cemetery: MANCHESTER SOUTHERN CEMETERY Additional Information: Son of Ernest and Annie Muirhead, of Manchester.
His Father died on 23/12/40 MUIRHEAD, ERNEST Rank: Civilian Date of Death: 23/12/1940 Age: 52 Regiment/Service: Civilian War Dead Reporting Authority: MANCHESTER, COUNTY BOROUGH Additional Information: of 77 Wilmott Street, Hulme. Husband of Annie Muirhead. Died at 77 Wilmott Street. Manchester Christmas Blitz: Five of the deadliest bomb sites Mapped: 1940 Christmas blitz bomb sites in Manchester Raids on Manchester[edit] Air raids began in August 1940, and in September 1940 the Palace Theatre on Oxford Street was bombed. The heaviest raids occurred on the nights of 22/23 and 23/24 December 1940, killing an estimated 684 people and injuring 2,364.[1] Manchester Cathedral, the Royal Exchange and the Free Trade Hall were among the large buildings damaged. On the night of 22/23 December, 270 aircraft dropped 272 tons of high explosive and 1,032 incendiary bombs; on the second night, 171 aircraft dropped another 195 tons of high explosive and 893 incendiaries.[1] Nazi propaganda claimed that the entire city had been burned to the ground.
Looks as though the whole family were killed Ernest Muirhead abt 1888 23 Dec 1940 Machester, Lancashire, England Annie Annie Muirhead abt 1894 23 Dec 1940 Machester, Lancashire, England Ernest Madge Muirhead abt 1926 23 Dec 1940 Machester, Lancashire, England Ernest, Annie Kathleen Muirhead abt 1930 25 Dec 1940 Machester, Lancashire, England Ernest, Annie Alan Muirhead abt 1932 23 Dec 1940 Machester, Lancashire, England Ernest, Annie Roy Muirhead abt 1935 23 Dec 1940 Machester, Lancashire, England Ernest, Annie William David Muirhead abt 1937 23 Dec 1940 Machester, Lancashire, England Ernest, Annie and of course their serviceman son: Name: Ernest Muirhead Given Initials: E R Rank: Private Death Date: 22 Dec 1940 Number: 7344754 Birth Place: Manchester Residence: Manchester Regiment at Enlistment: Royal Army Medical Corps Branch at Enlistment: Other Corps Theatre of War: United Kingdom Regiment at Death: Royal Army Medical Corps Branch at Death: Other Corps TD
MUIRHEAD, ERNEST Civilian 23/12/1940 52 Civilian War Dead United Kingdom MANCHESTER, COUNTY BOROUGH MUIRHEAD, KATHLEEN Civilian 25/12/1940 10 Civilian War Dead United Kingdom MANCHESTER, COUNTY BOROUGH MUIRHEAD, WILLIAM DAVID Civilian 23/12/1940 3 Civilian War Dead United Kingdom MANCHESTER, COUNTY BOROUGH MUIRHEAD, MADGE Civilian 23/12/1940 14 Civilian War Dead United Kingdom MANCHESTER, COUNTY BOROUGH MUIRHEAD, ROY Civilian 23/12/1940 5 Civilian War Dead United Kingdom MANCHESTER, COUNTY BOROUGH MUIRHEAD, ALAN Civilian 23/12/1940 8 Civilian War Dead United Kingdom MANCHESTER, COUNTY BOROUGH MUIRHEAD, ANNIE Civilian 23/12/1940 46 Civilian War Dead United Kingdom MANCHESTER, COUNTY BOROUGH