Nottingham Evening Post, Saturday May 9th 1942, In Memoriam:

' To the everlasting memory of our fallen comrades, from their workmates at N.C.S. Bakery and Confectionery.'

'Thoughts and memories of our members killed at N.C.S. Bakery, one year today.
- Bakers and Confectioners Union'

Nottingham’s heaviest loss of life at a single location during May 9th 1941’s air raid occurred within the Co-op Bakery on Meadow Lane where 49 night shift workers perished. The bakery was hit twice; one bomb caused tons of flour stored on upper floors to crash down to ground level. A second device penetrated the bakery’s air raid shelter roof before exploding amongst the assembled work force. Rescue efforts were impeded by blazing fat. For an excellent account of this incident, see David Needham, Battle of the Flames, Nottingham’s Fight for Survival in WWII (2nd Ed. Chesterfield: Banister Publications Ltd, 2020 p.p. 141-142. First Ed. Horizon Press, 2009).

This list of 9/5/41 C0-op Bakery fatalities was formerly displayed on the Bakery wall, Meadow Lane, opposite Notts County's football stadium. It was later moved to the current location at Wilford Hill and incorporated into the memorial above 6 collective graves of 30 NCS employees who perished 9/5/41. Only 23 of them could be identified: John Joseph Addis (G30/1), George Samuel Bream (G30/1), Cyril Vernon Gamble (G30/1), Ernest Hickling (G30/1), Joseph Edward Peach (G30/1), Arthur Rippin Pulfree (G30/1), John Arthur Knowles (G30/11), William James Radford (G30/11), Samuel Theaker (G30/11), Lewis Conway (G30/12), William Culley (G30/12), George William Marshall (G30/12), John Lowe Warrener (G30/12), Charles Bell (G30/2), Frank Howman (G30/2), George Thomas Morris (G30/2), Herbert Button (G30/3), William Daubney (G30/3), William Ince Levick (G30/3), Thomas Whitchurch(G30/3), Raymond Cowlishaw (G30/4), John Sanford Robinson (G30/4) and Eric Roy Saunders (G30/4). Many thanks to Sarah Valmai Rowley, Cemeteries Support Assistant at Wilford Hill, for researching these and other 9/5/41 burial locations around Nottingham Southern Cemetery's vast site.