Memorial Plaque:V2 strike 19th November 1944 Hazlehurst Road and Foss Road,Tooting

Memorial plaque on Sutton Courtenay House, Tooting

November 19th 1944

 

Nov. 19, (08.27 hours) - Battery 444, (Site 72), V-2 rocket fired, impacted Wandsworth. Direct hit on house. 34 Dead, 20 seriously injured. 9 Properties plus a surface shelter demolished. (*JP)
V2ROCKET.COM - Timeline of V2 Attacks

 

STEWARD, THOMAS Civilian 19/11/1944 74 Civilian War Dead United Kingdom WANDSWORTH, METROPOLITAN BOROUGH
GARDNER, DOROTHY Civilian 19/11/1944 32 Civilian War Dead United Kingdom WANDSWORTH, METROPOLITAN BOROUGH
STEWARD, THOMAS JAMES Civilian 19/11/1944 34 Civilian War Dead United Kingdom WANDSWORTH, METROPOLITAN BOROUGH
GARDNER, ERNEST GEORGE Civilian 19/11/1944 32 Civilian War Dead United Kingdom WANDSWORTH, METROPOLITAN BOROUGH
WARE, MINNIE MATILDA Civilian 19/11/1944 59 Civilian War Dead United Kingdom WANDSWORTH, METROPOLITAN BOROUGH
BUSHAWAY, CISSIE ALICE SUSAN Civilian 19/11/1944 42 Civilian War Dead United Kingdom WANDSWORTH, METROPOLITAN BOROUGH
ACKERMAN, WILLIAM JOSEPH Civilian 19/11/1944 10 Civilian War Dead United Kingdom WANDSWORTH, METROPOLITAN BOROUGH
ACKERMAN, FLORENCE BETTY Civilian 19/11/1944 13 Civilian War Dead United Kingdom WANDSWORTH, METROPOLITAN BOROUGH
KITTS, CHRISTOPHER Civilian 19/11/1944 56 Civilian War Dead United Kingdom WANDSWORTH, METROPOLITAN BOROUGH
BIGGS, FLORENCE NELLIE Civilian 19/11/1944 26 Civilian War Dead United Kingdom WANDSWORTH, METROPOLITAN BOROUGH
BUSHAWAY, TERENCE Civilian 19/11/1944 Civilian War Dead United Kingdom WANDSWORTH, METROPOLITAN BOROUGH
CHANNELL, ELIZABETH Civilian 19/11/1944 25 Civilian War Dead United Kingdom WANDSWORTH, METROPOLITAN BOROUGH
CHANNELL, JOHN JAMES Civilian 19/11/1944 27 Civilian War Dead United Kingdom WANDSWORTH, METROPOLITAN BOROUGH
CHANNELL, JOHN JAMES Civilian 19/11/1944 4 Civilian War Dead United Kingdom WANDSWORTH, METROPOLITAN BOROUGH
FARMER, BENJAMIN LEONARD Civilian 19/11/1944 37 Civilian War Dead United Kingdom WANDSWORTH, METROPOLITAN BOROUGH

COOPER, EMILY FLORENCE Civilian 19/11/1944 30 Civilian War Dead United Kingdom WANDSWORTH, METROPOLITAN BOROUGH
FARMER, DENNIS Civilian 19/11/1944 7 Civilian War Dead United Kingdom WANDSWORTH, METROPOLITAN BOROUGH
FARMER, KENNETH Civilian 19/11/1944 4 Civilian War Dead United Kingdom WANDSWORTH, METROPOLITAN BOROUGH
FARMER, LEONARD Civilian 19/11/1944 11 Civilian War Dead United Kingdom WANDSWORTH, METROPOLITAN BOROUGH
FARMER, THIRZA DOROTHY Civilian 19/11/1944 34 Civilian War Dead United Kingdom WANDSWORTH, METROPOLITAN BOROUGH
GARDNER, ERNEST DAVID Civilian 19/11/1944 3 Civilian War Dead United Kingdom WANDSWORTH, METROPOLITAN BOROUGH
GARDNER, FLORENCE ANNIE Civilian 19/11/1944 38 Civilian War Dead United Kingdom WANDSWORTH, METROPOLITAN BOROUGH
GARDNER, JOHN WILLIAM Civilian 19/11/1944 8 Civilian War Dead United Kingdom WANDSWORTH, METROPOLITAN BOROUGH
HINSON, RAYMOND ARTHUR Civilian 19/11/1944 14 Civilian War Dead United Kingdom WANDSWORTH, METROPOLITAN BOROUGH
HINSON, ROBERT WILLIAM Civilian 19/11/1944 5 Civilian War Dead United Kingdom WANDSWORTH, METROPOLITAN BOROUGH
HINSON, WINIFRED Civilian 19/11/1944 37 Civilian War Dead United Kingdom WANDSWORTH, METROPOLITAN BOROUGH
STEWARD, ALICE Civilian 19/11/1944 72 Civilian War Dead United Kingdom WANDSWORTH, METROPOLITAN BOROUGH
McVICARS, EILEEN Civilian 19/11/1944 19 Civilian War Dead United Kingdom WANDSWORTH, METROPOLITAN BOROUGH
MILLWARD, WILLIAM JOSEPH Civilian 19/11/1944 51 Civilian War Dead United Kingdom WANDSWORTH, METROPOLITAN BOROUGH
OGILVIE, HARRY Civilian 19/11/1944 92 Civilian War Dead United Kingdom WANDSWORTH, METROPOLITAN BOROUGH
WARE, EILEEN DOROTHY Civilian 19/11/1944 12 Civilian War Dead United Kingdom WANDSWORTH, METROPOLITAN BOROUGH
WILSON, JANE ELIZABETH Civilian 19/11/1944 66 Civilian War Dead United Kingdom WANDSWORTH, METROPOLITAN BOROUGH
WOODLEY, JOSEPHINE DORIS Civilian 19/11/1944 14 Civilian War Dead United Kingdom WANDSWORTH, METROPOLITAN BOROUGH

 

BUSHAWAY, TERENCE
Rank:
Civilian
Date of Death:
19/11/1944
Regiment/Service:
Civilian War Dead
Reporting Authority:
WANDSWORTH, METROPOLITAN BOROUGH
Additional Information:
Aged 6 months; of 34 Hazelhurst Road. Son of Edward Bushaway, and of Cissie Alice Susan Bushaway. Died at Hazelhurst Road.
Buried Streatham Cemetery

BUSHAWAY, CISSIE ALICE SUSAN
Rank:
Civilian
Date of Death:
19/11/1944
Age:
42
Regiment/Service:
Civilian War Dead
Reporting Authority:
WANDSWORTH, METROPOLITAN BOROUGH
Additional Information:
of 34 Hazelhurst Road. Wife of Edward Bushaway. Died at Hazelhurst Road.

Above buried Streatham Cemetery

Father Died in service
BUSHAWAY, EDWARD JOHN
Rank:
Private
Service No:
14379955
Date of Death:
24/09/1944
Regiment/Service:
Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry
1st Bn.
Grave Reference:
I. B. 7.
Cemetery:
VALKENSWAARD WAR CEMETERY

 

Doug Kitts’ story is particularly tragic. A corporal in the Royal Signals Corps, he had been evacuated at Dunkirk, then taken prisoner at Tobruk. Incredibly he escaped from his POW camp and made his way back to Britain, only to be killed that November morning. He was 24.

November 19th 1944


KITTS, DOUGLAS
Rank:
Corporal
Service No:
2573109
Date of Death:
19/11/1944
Age:
24
Regiment/Service:
Royal Corps of Signals
Grave Reference:
Block 11. Grave 916.
Cemetery:
STREATHAM CEMETERY
Additional Information:
Son of George Albert and Florence Emma Kitts, of Tooting, Surrey.

 

Buried Streatham Cemetery
WARE, MINNIE MATILDA Civilian 19/11/1944 59 Civilian War Dead United Kingdom WANDSWORTH, METROPOLITAN BOROUGH
WARE, EILEEN DOROTHY Civilian 19/11/1944 12 Civilian War Dead United Kingdom WANDSWORTH, METROPOLITAN BOROUGH

 

Yes, small vignettes of sadness...
PITTS, WILLIAM. Rank: Private. Service No: G/2853. Date of Death: 03/05/1917. Age: 35.
Regiment/Service: The Buffs (East Kent Regiment) 6th Bn.
Panel Reference: Bay 2. Memorial: ARRAS MEMORIAL
Additional Information: Son of the late Joseph and Fanny Pitts; husband of Minnie Miltida Pitts, of 28, Hazelhurst Rd., Tooting, London.
All 34 casualties were in Hazlehurst Road. No other CWGC entries for WW1 or any other date, perhaps the road wasn't built in 1914?

 

Looks like the Father was killed during Market Garden a few months before

 

Very sad indeed. We will remember. Rest in peace.


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