The Blitz Around UK 7th September 1940 onwards

24th March 1941

Barking Essex
009 BAILEY CT - - 24/03/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD Injured 18th March 1941

Plymouth
025 COLLINS WG - - 24/03/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD Injured 21st March 1941
032 GERRETTY JTG - - 24/03/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD Injured 22nd March 1941

Lincoiln
060 MEDD A - - 24/03/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD


Kingston upon Hull
070 REA D - - 24/03/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD Injured 18th March 1941

Hythe Kent
091 WONFOR M - - 24/03/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD
092 WONFOR A - - 24/03/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD
093 WONFOR S - - 24/03/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD

 

25th March 1941


Ealing London
015 BAKER EV - - 25/03/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD Injured 30th September 1940

 

26th March 1941

Palmers Green London
050 CONWAY HG - - 26/03/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD Injured 16th March 1941

 

27th March 1941

Poole Dorset
201 STOVEY HG - - 27/03/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD
181 RANDALL FE - - 27/03/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD

 

28th March 1941

Biddenden Kent
199 STANDEN RE - - 28/03/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD Injured 15th March 1941

 

29th March 1941

Stepney London
188 SAMUELS WC - - 29/03/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD Injured 19th March 1941

 

30th March 1941

Liverpool
223 YARE M - - 30/03/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD Injured 1st March 1941

 

31st March 1941

Kingston upon Hull
221 WOOD M - - 31/03/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD
222 WOOD S - - 31/03/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD
219 WOOD J - - 31/03/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD
220 WOOD G - - 31/03/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD

 

1st April 1941

Mautby Norfolk
202 TOLMAN C - - 01/04/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD in field adjoining Wood Farm, Mautby
203 TOLMAN VF - - 01/04/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD

 

2nd April 1941

Bristol
053 COTTLE G - - 02/04/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD Injured 16th March 1941


Islington London
023 BEAVAN A - - 02/04/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD Injured 8th March 1941

Poplar London
023 BEAVAN A - - 02/04/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD

 

Regarding power generation severe damage by bombing was sustained during the Battle of Britain. In September through to the end of October 1940,6 sub stations and 26 power stations were put out of action, some briefly.
The worse was at Battersea A where nearly 250MW capacity was lost when the control room received a direct hit on a Sunday night. Engineering staffs working night and day repairing the generation control systems and had the station generating by the following Wednesday morning.

A direct hit on Fulham power station caused extensive damage to the plant resulting in 190MWs being lost but power supplies to the undertaking was restored via the CEB Grid within a few hours. Some plant was returned to service within 3 months. however the full generating capacity was not available for about 6 months while repairs were carried out.

District engineers in charge of mains, ie, distribution, covered the job 24 hours a day and on a rota did a night standby duty, one night in three. It is recorded that the District Engineer for Westminster and Chelsea, a R J Rennie slept on a camp bed in a cable tunnel underneath a sub station. This practice for the District Engineers on night standby continued for 12 months until a shelter was built under the yard at Eccleston Place (probably a sub station) where the accommodation was less spartan than a cable tunnel.

Extract from Engineers in Power by the EPEA (Electrical Power Engineers Association) January 1989.

 

ID Card belonging to John Edward Longhurst of 17 Latchmere Street Battersea a GPO employee who was killed 1/10/40

Civilian John Edward Longhurst | War Casualty Details | CWGC

Also a condolence letter from the GPO to his widow

Any further details of the raid welcome - the bomb maps seem to show Latchmere Street as having been hit and today only a small stub of it exists, probably as a result

 

Here are three views of the area for Latchmere Street showing the bomb damage, the post-war rebuilding with whole houses already torn down and others an empty shell (main picture) and the current day lay out with Latchmere Street no more.

 

3rd April 1941

Eton Buckinghamshire
028 BROWN G - - 03/04/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD
029 BROWN ME - - 03/04/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD
030 BROWN DLM - - 03/04/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD
031 BROWN AJW - - 03/04/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD
065 GOLLEDGE WR - - 03/04/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD
066 GOLLEDGE HM - - 03/04/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD
169 TROTMAN EF - - 03/04/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD

Westbury upon Trym Bristol
073 HALPIN JH - - 03/04/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD
113 MCDOWELL T - - 03/04/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD

Henleaze Bristol
118 MILLARD CH - - 03/04/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD

Bishopston Bristol
170 TURNER E - - 03/04/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD
171 TURNER AEM - - 03/04/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD
172 TURNER KEM - - 03/04/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD

Southgate London
156 SMITH K - - 03/04/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD

Horfield Bristol
182 WATTS JI - - 03/04/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD
183 WATTS BM - - 03/04/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD
184 WATTS LA - - 03/04/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD
181 WARREN L - - 03/04/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD
180 WARREN ILA - - 03/04/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD

Kingston upon Hull
061 FULLARD H - - 03/04/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD

Corsley Wiltshire
133 PRICE GC - 3RD WILTSHIRE SALISBURY BN 03/04/1941 HOME GUARD NORTH OF CHURCH.
134 PRICE GC - - 03/04/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD
148 SHEPPARD W - 3RD WILTSHIRE SALISBURY BN 03/04/1941 HOME GUARD N.W. CORNER.
149 SHEPPARD W - - 03/04/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD
150 SHEPPARD FGB - - 03/04/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD

Bristol
084 HYETT F - - 03/04/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD
085 HYETT SM - - 03/04/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD

 

4th April 1941

Exeter
016 BAREHAM DM - - 04/04/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD
017 BAREHAM DM 6398453 2ND BN 04/04/1941 ROYAL SUSSEX REGIMENT

Corsley Wiltshire
022 BLACKHALL AC - - 04/04/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD

Cotham Bristol
026 BOYES EG - - 04/04/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD


Birkenhead
172 THOMAS WCO - - 04/04/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD Injured 12th March 1941

Bristol
131 MOUNTFORD LE - - 04/04/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD

 

5th April 1941

Derby
011 BREWSTER F - - 05/04/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD

Isle of Wight
028 FERRARI AJ - - 05/04/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD

Edmonton London
030 GARDINER CW - - 05/04/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD Injured 19th March 1941

Bristol
065 POMPHREY GW - - 05/04/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD Injured 3rd April 1941

Fraseburgh Scotland
074 SIM E - - 05/04/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD
076 SIMPSON JB - - 05/04/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD


Crowborough East Sussex
077 SIVERS ME - - 05/04/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD

 

6th April 1941

Aberdeen
030 DUNBAR JA - - 06/04/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD Injured 5th April 1941
089 MICHAEL CS - - 06/04/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD Injured 5th April 1941

Glasgow
072 LINDSAY JG - - 06/04/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD

Bromley Kent
121 STILES GN - - 06/04/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD

West Ham

 

7th April 1941


Thorcraft South Shields
008 BAKER A - - 07/04/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD

Gretna Dumfries
011 BEATTIE TC - - 07/04/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD
014 BELL J - - 07/04/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD
015 BELL R - - 07/04/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD
158 WEST WW - - 07/04/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD

Bow London
013 BELL GR - - 07/04/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD Injured June 1940

Glasgow
018 BLACK MM - - 07/04/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD

Edinburgh
165 YOUNG JN - - 07/04/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD
166 YOUNG T - - 07/04/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD

 

8th April 1941

Glasgow
005 AKSELROD O - - 08/04/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD
006 AKSELROD PH - - 08/04/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD
007 AKSELROD S - - 08/04/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD

Coventry
012 ALLAN-SMITH MG - - 08/04/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD
019 ARCHER F - - 08/04/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD
427 WILLIAMS C - - 08/04/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD


Thurrock Kent
014 ALLIKER GI - - 08/04/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD
015 ALLIKER AK - - 08/04/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD
016 ALLIKER WE - - 08/04/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD

Rochester Kent
421 WHITE ET - - 08/04/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD
422 WHITE MJ - - 08/04/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD
423 WHITE M - - 08/04/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD

Great Yarmouth
018 ANNISON GF - - 08/04/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD
284 NORTON RM - - 08/04/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD
285 NORTON B - - 08/04/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD
286 NORTON TBH LT/JX 174596 HM TRAWLER MILFORD EARL 08/04/1941 ROYAL NAVAL PATROL SERVICE
297 PERRY WJ - - 08/04/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD
298 PERRY PA - - 08/04/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD


Southport
020 ARDEN E - - 08/04/1941 CIVILIAN WAR DEAD