Samuel Bernard Northern
In 1939 Samuel was working has a gardener/groundsman.
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Son of Thomas Bernard and Mary Elizabth Northern of Mansfield Woodhouse.
The family moved around alot, in 1921 they were in Meden Vale, in 1939 they were in Skegness but back in Mansfield Woodhouse when Samuel was killed.
His mother was killed in an air-raid on Birmingham on the 1st of November 1940 . She is listed on CWGC as a civillian death killed at 50 Hampton Road, Birmingham. Birmingham was heavily bombed from Aug-Dec 1940.
Thomas remarried in 1944 to Violet Grey and they lived at 9 King Street Mansfield Woodhouse.
Samuel had one brother, Kenneth, born in 1925.
Operation Jubilee, the ill-fated attack on Dieppe. On the 19th August over 6000 troops were landed to take the port of Dieppe. After 6hours the RAF had lost 106 aircraft and the Royal Navy had lost a destroyer and 33 landing craft. After 10 hours over half the land force had been either killed, wounded or taken prisoner and a retreat had been ordered.
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