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Walter George Baden Chambers

Address 61, Dennison Street, Radford, Nottingham
Date of birth 19 Feb 1922
Date of Death (19 years old)
Place of Birth Nottingham
Employment, Education or Hobbies He was a shop assistant in 1939 and he also served in the Home Guard.
Family History

He was the son of Walter and Sarah Chambers. They lived at 61, Dennison Street, Nottingham.

Extra Information

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).

Nottingham Evening Post, 9/5/1942, Page 2, In Memoriam: CHAMBERS – Walter, killed by enemy action, May 9th 1941. Your end came sudden, it made me cry, but the hardest part of all you did not say goodbye. – Loving mam, dad, sister Ellen

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