|
World War I
DEATHS IN BRITAIN THROUGH ENEMY ACTION
|
airship raids |
aeroplane raids |
bombardments |
|
civilians |
soldiers/sailors |
civilians |
soldiers/sailors |
civilians |
soldiers/sailors |
|
498 |
58 |
619 |
238 |
143 |
121 |
THE DATES AND LOCATIONS OF DEATH IN DOVER BY ENEMY ACTION
370 bombs, 85
shells: approximately 26 people killed and 75 injured. In Dover 207 bombs and shells
were dropped on an area less than 3 square miles, a density of
over 69 impacts per square mile. London received the most bombs,
800, but over 144 square miles. This was a density of 5.5
impacts per square mile.
CIVILIANS
1916
| Date |
Name |
Age |
Location |
|
23 January |
Harry Sladden
Unknown person |
43 |
Red Lion Pub, St. James's Street
reported on 23 June as having died. Believed to be Julia Philpott |
| 19 March |
Miss Edith Stoker
Francis Hall,
Mrs
Jane James
(seven people in total said to have been killed this day) |
23
7
47 |
131 Folkestone Road
Folkestone Road
40 Snargate Street, by
Barwick's Workshop, Northampton Street
|
Edith Stoker's grave amidst the Commonwealth War Graves, St
James
1917
| Date |
Name |
Age |
Location |
| 22 August |
Miss Lucy
Wall
|
17 |
Admiral Harvey pub, Bridge Street |
| 2 September |
Unknown person |
|
had gone out during the raid to see what was happening (could this
have been Henry Long?) |
| 4 September |
Henry J H Long
Edward Little
Mrs Minnie Smith |
29
73
40 |
Priory Hill
4 Widred Road
4 Widred Road |
| 24 September |
Miss Dorothy Eleanor Wood
Mrs Annie Keates
Miss Evelyn Keates
Miss Ellen Maria Kenward,
Edwin Kenward
Mrs Jane Gould
|
17
52
12
55
77
86
|
Miss Pilcher's Shorthand Class, 10 Folkestone Road (died from
injuries on 2nd October)
40 Glenfield Road
40 Glenfield Road (died from injuries on 26th September?)
75 Crabble Hill (died from injuries on 12th October)
75 Crabble Hill (died from injuries on 13th October)
Crabble Hill (injured at no 77, died on 16th October at Maxton) |
1918
| Date |
Name |
Age |
Location |
| 16 February |
Miss Gertrude Boorman |
13 |
4 Cowgate Hill (shellfire) |
SERVICE PERSONNEL
1916
| Graves at St James |
 |
|
 |
|
Frank Roseberry |
|
Walter Venables |
| Date |
Name |
Location |
| 19 March |
Frank Roseberry
Walter Venables
two others |
5th Batt., Royal Fusiliers, Northfall Meadow Hutment |
| 20 May |
Private H Sole |
Grand Shaft Barracks (East Surrey Regiment) (on
town memorial) |
1917
| Date |
Name |
Location |
| 22 August |
two men |
32nd Training Reserve Battery, Dover College |
| 2 September |
2nd Lieut Henry Larcombe, |
5th Battery Royal Fusiliers, Northfall Meadow Hutment |
| 31 October |
Unnamed seaman,
Lt. Godfrey RNR (heart failure during raid?) |
Prince of Wales Pier |
OTHER DEATHS
1915
| Date |
Name
|
Circumstances
|
Location |
| 10 August |
two trawlermen or one soldier |
fatally injured after bomb
fragments pierced sides of trawler Equinox |
in the harbour |
MORE
| Date |
Name
|
Age
|
Circumstances
|
Location |
| 28 September 1915 |
Marion Violet Girdwood |
26 |
died at the Royal Victoria Hospital
from typhoid fever acquired while on board SS San
Zeferino, compounded by shock when the vessel was mined
on 18 September off the South Goodwins. She was formerly
Miss Armstrong, having married Kennet John Girdwood, a
Canadian by birth, in 1909 in Kensington. She is buried
at Charlton. |
Dover |
| October 1917 |
Edith Owers |
51 |
died early Sunday morning from
injuries and shock, caused by a missile (shell?) which
exploded outside her house, with a fragment coming
through a closed door and striking her |
Eastry registration area |
NOTE ALSO
| Date |
Name
|
Age
|
Circumstances
|
Location |
| 28 May 1917 |
Rosa Caroline Golds |
59 |
said to have "suffered greatly from
shock due to the bombardment of April 21st, and has been
seriously ill since, succumbing on Monday afternoon".
Buried St Lawrence, Hougham. See also
here |
died at The Plough, West Hougham; she
was the wife of landlord William Golds. |
| 9 November 1917 |
Amanda Elizabeth Keyton |
49 |
died from a stroke
after having taken shelter under a viaduct during a
Zeppelin raid on Dover. Buried at St Mary's. See also
here |
|
dates and locations
kindly supplied by Mark Frost, Dover
Museum, additions Jon Iveson, Marilyn S-K, and Joyce Banks
statistics Dover Express, 20 December 1918, 17 January 1919, February 1919
|
