ENEMY AIR RAIDS

Grey River Argus, 19 December 1940, Page 5

ENEMY AIR RAIDS

NOVEMBER CASUALTIES Total 10,790 in Britain [Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn.] LONDON, December 17. The Ministry of Home Security an- & nounced that 4,588 were killed, and 6,202 sent to hospital in the* United Kingdom, during November, as a result of air raids. Details are as follows: — Killed, I Men 2289 Women 1806 Children 493 Injured in Hospital'. Men 3493 Women 2251 Children 458 « SHEFFIELD VICTIMS BURIED FOUR DAYS (Received December 18. 9.50 p.m.) ; LONDON, December 17. There had been no German raiders over Britain to midnight on Tuesday.

Great progress has been mad e in normalising the damaged areas nt Sheffield. The rescue work is being continued. Some of those who were buried had been without food since Thursday last, , and were dug out alive on Monday.

“NOTHING TO REPORT” (Received December 19, 1.5 a.m.) LONDON, December 18. Awakening memories on the “Boer War” days, th e Air Ministry and Home Security Ministry, in a joint communique on enemy act'.v.ty on Tuesday night, which were the shortest since th 6 “blitz” began, says: “Nothing to report.”

. HALL ROOF COLLAPSES. WOMEN TRAPPED. LONDON Decernber 17. A bomb blast, last night,- in a west Midlands town caused the roof of a hall to collapse, and trapped 20 women under the debris, and kined a boy and girl. A stick of bombs straddled a street, and a number of persons were injured.

The list of officers and other ranks of the R.A.F., to whom awards have been made for gallant conduct during the air-raids, contains the name of Corporal J'osephine Robins, a member of the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force, who is described as displaying “courage and coolness of a very high order, in a position of extreme danger.” Corporal Robins was in a dug-out eh received a direct hit during intense enemy bombing. A number of imen were killed, and ’two were seriously injured. 'Though dust fumes filled the shelter, she immediately went to the assistance of the wounded, and rendered first-aid, staying with them until they were taken away.

The posthumous award of the i George Cross to Squudron Leader Eric Moxey was announced to-day. In August last, Moxey, who was a flying officer and observer in the last war, was a technical intelligence officer at the Air Ministry, and volunteered to remove two, unexploded bombs embedded in. an aerodrome. From the nature of his duties Moxey was fully aware of the risks and danger of the operations. One of the bombs exploded, causing his death.