Anthony Joseph William Thompson

Attended the Magnus Boys Grammar School, he would have been at school had not the habitual half-day been switched from its usual Wednesday to Thursday to enable boys to attend an organ recital. He had been in a garden with schoolmates John Noble and Leslie Bailey. Hearing the bombs whistling down, they ran in different directions and hurled themselves to the ground. Only Anthony was hit, cause of death being struck in the head by metal railings. Buried Newark Cemetery 3/2/1941 in a family plot.

Trent side Newark bombed by alone Ju88A-4 piloted by Oblt Kurt Dahlmann of Kampfgeschwader 30 (KG 30) Luftwaffe bomber wing. Newark target listed by the Luftwaffe as Moulders & Petes (ambiguous location not known in Newark), a secondary target after BMARC at Grantham was obscured by cloud. 14 bombs fell across the works, Castle Railway Station sidings and along the Trent and into the scrap yard. Houses, shops and the gravel works damaged, luckily the GPO Repeater Station on Water Lane and the oil storage tanks on the Trent side were undamaged. Blast walls were later built around the tanks, with the builder Mr Clipsham reportedly see the aircraft attack Ransome & Marles 7/3/1941 during there construction.