TRAGEDY OF RAID
23 IN ONE FAMILY
LONDON, June 18. The biggest personal tragedy of the war was revealed the other day. It occurred in the East End of London during German air raids. One man, sole survivor of his family, lost 23 relations killed. Later he received a letter from the Imperial War Graves Commission asking for details about his daughter. He called, gave the necessary information, then asked: “What about the others?” Officials discovered he had brought with him a complete record of 23 members of his family— ■„ wiped out by the same bomb. Youngest of Britain’s civilian war. dead was a baby 11 hours old. And, at the other end of the scale, the oldest was a Chelsea pensioner aged 100. With more than 42,000 others, then' names appear in the register of civilian war dead compiled by the commission.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 15 August 1942, Page 5
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