June Marshall
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Of 45 Warneford Gardens, Chanterland Avenue, Hull. Daughter of John and Irene Marshall . Died at 45 Warneford Gardens. Her mother Irene was also killed. Buried St Giles church yard 25/5/1942.
12:30 am, 'All Clear' sirens sounded but as people left the shelters a single bomb dropped on Warneford Gardens, 2 killed at number 45, 2 killed at number 51 and 1 killed 1 mortally injured at number 47.
An Air Raid "Alert" was sounded at 23.41hrs. At first Incendiaries were dropped on Skirlaugh, Beaumont Street, Bellamy Street, and Flares on Spring Bank West. Fires resulted at Victoria and Alexandra Docks, also Bellamy Street, the most serious one being in Silcox Oil & Cake Warehouse, Victoria Dock. High Explosive Bombs were dropped on Perth Street, West; Newtown square; Warneford Gardens; Brindley Street; Southcoates Lane; Manchester Street; Scarborough Street; Havelock Street; Alms Houses, Pickering Park; Anti- Aircraft Gun Site, Wawne Road; the Withernsea Railway Line near Sweet Dew Sidings; Beaumont
Street and Bellamy Streets were damaged by small fires.
Unexploded Bombs were dropped in Westbourne Ave.; Farndale Avenue; Robinson's Tin Works, Kedrum Road; Long's Timber Yard, Southcoates Lane; Alexandra Dock Entrance; and Soldiers' Sidings, Priory Sidings.
In addition a HE Bomb fell in Naylor's Row and it was also reported than there was an Unexploded Bomb in the same street. This was afterwards found to be incorrect.
Heavy damage was caused, particularly in the Scarborough Street incident, where the bomb is reported as 1,800 Kgs (SC 1800 'Satan' - Sprengbombe Cylindrisch 1800) . At the fire in Silcox Oil & Cake Warehouse, serious damage was done resulting in the loss of about 5,000 tons of oil bearing nuts and the premises are practically a total wreck.
For the type of raid, the casualties were fairly light and the latest figures are as follows:—Killed 19 males. 22 females. 6 children. Injured 36 males. 26 females. 9 children. Treated at, First Aid Posts 54 males. 17 females. 9 children.
Hull was the most severely damaged British city or town during the Second World War, with 95 percent of houses damaged. It was under air raid alert for 1,000 hours. Hull was the target of the first daylight raid of the war and the last piloted air raid on Britain. Of a population of approximately 320,000 at the beginning of the war, approximately 152,000 were made homeless as a result of bomb destruction or damage. Overall almost 1,200 people were killed
and 3,000 injured by air raids.
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Photo of June Marshall