 CIVILIAN INJURIES
THROUGH ENEMY ACTION IN DOVER
This is the beginning of a list of civilian
injuries in Dover through enemy action. It will be revised
frequently as we access more sources. If you have further
information, please let us know
This preliminary list is based on Roy
Humphreys' book, "Dover at War, 1939-1945". According to
this book 307 civilians were seriously injured in Dover
and 420 were slightly injured. There were 3,059 raid
Alerts.
Numbers in italics
were obtained from the book "Front Line County" by
Andrew Rootes, with figures mainly from the Civil
Defence War Diaries at the County Archives, Maidstone.
Those marked DE were found in issues of the Dover
Express newpaper.
There are discrepancies in the
figures, and information from one source in the table
may not incorporate information from another. See also
the different list
from the Diary of Events, Dover Municipal Borough
1940
|
Date |
Name |
Location |
Notes |
| 10 July |
George Knight |
Matthews Place |
bullet wound to leg during dogfight |
| 11 August |
two slight injuries |
|
Me attack on barrage balloons |
| 12 August |
three seriously injured, nine slightly
injured |
Noah's Ark Road |
first shells (from railway-mounted) |
| 22 August |
seven seriously injured
two slightly injured (or four seriously
injured, seven slightly injured) |
|
shelling |
| 24 August |
two seriously injured |
|
|
| 25 August |
Lady North |
prohibited area |
stepped on mine while out walking |
| two slightly injured |
|
plane crash |
| 31 August |
woman |
Globe Inn, Peter Street |
wound to leg, Me shooting balloons |
| man |
Noah's Ark Road |
wound to chest, as above |
| man and woman |
41 Edred Road |
wounds to legs after man hit cannon shell
with axe |
| September |
Mr Beaufoy, Chief of Special Constabulary,
Magistrate |
|
blown across road by shell, "badly knocked
about", the following April needed treatment for
eye problems |
| 9 September |
woman |
Temple Ewell |
slight injury, bombers |
| Mrs Rogers |
Admiral Harvey |
fractured arm, shelling |
| three seriously injured, two slightly
injured |
|
shelling |
| 11 September |
Patricia Treadwell |
Grand Hotel |
bombing |
| thirteen seriously injured, thirty-six
slightly injured |
|
bombing and shelling |
| 16 September |
Thomas Kemp |
St James St |
shell splinter |
| 26 September |
four seriously injured
(one probably being Mr Gaetano
Abate), thirteen slightly
injured |
|
shelling |
| 27 September |
man |
Harold Street |
bomb |
| 30 September |
casualty |
Ladywell fire station |
shell |
| 2 October |
four seriously injured |
Clarendon Street |
Me bombs. Two may have been Alice Phillips,
who sustained leg injuries, and Henry Phillips,
her son, with back injuries. Their house,
no 134, received a direct hit (year uncertain).
They were dug out of their Anderson shelter.
with thanks to Fred Brewer |
| 7 October |
Mr and Mrs Moore |
St James Street? |
bomb |
| Mrs Clavery |
|
|
| landlady of White Horse |
|
|
| 8 October |
woman |
Manor Road |
bomb |
| six seriously injured, one slightly
injured |
|
bombing |
| 18 October |
three civilians (or one seriously
injured, one slightly injured) |
Connaught Park |
shells |
| 20 October |
Mr Carswell |
Stanhope Road |
badly injured, shell |
| three seriously injured |
|
shelling |
| 21 October |
slight casualties |
|
bombing |
| two casualties |
Clock Tower |
bombing |
| one above may be PC Saville |
|
hit by shrapnel at 17.30, left arm amputated
subsequently |
| 22 October |
minor casualties |
Norman Street |
shell |
| 25 October |
three serious (or three slightly injured) |
Tower Hill |
shell |
| five |
Priory Station |
shell |
| 1st November |
two slightly injured |
|
shelling |
| 6 November |
one serious |
|
shelling |
| 13 November |
twelve seriously injured, twelve slightly
injured |
|
bombing |
| 14 November |
one seriously injured, one slightly
injured |
|
bombing |
1941
|
Date |
Name |
Location |
Notes |
| 10 February |
several in concert party |
Hippodrome |
exploding bomb |
| 31 March |
woman |
London Road/St Rad's |
shock and hearing loss, shell |
| three serious |
22 Bartholomew Street |
shell |
| (or five slightly injured) |
|
shelling |
| 29 April |
two slight |
Mayfield Avenue |
airburst shell |
| Dennis Keeler, William Irving, James Rogers |
gun emplacements east of town |
airburst shells |
| 7 May |
Mr Hare |
Market Square |
car overturned, shell |
| driver and conductor |
Market Square, East Kent Bus |
cut by flying glass, shell |
| three serious |
Priory Road |
shell |
| (or eight seriously injured, eight
slightly injured) |
|
shelling |
| May |
C E Beaufoy |
letter in Dover Express |
blindness through shell shock, closed his
undertaking and building businesses |
| three men |
in car on Deal/Dover Road |
gunshot wounds, fired by sentry whose
challenge was unheard |
| 12 June |
over twenty serious (23 slightly injured) |
Randolph Road |
air mine |
| 25 July |
one woman |
Barwick's Yard, Market St |
hit by flying debris |
| 19 August |
Mr Clement |
Hippodrome |
hit by masonry, bomb |
| 27 August |
27 - including 11 men, 2 women serious, 7
women slight, and 4 children |
Charlton/Tower Hamlets |
JU88 bombing raid |
| 7 September |
two slightly injured |
|
bombing |
| 17 September |
Mrs Hatton, Mrs Dive, Albert Humphries (63),
Ernest Horton (40), Harry Wilson (70) seriously
injured |
|
bombing |
| 2 October |
thirteen injuries |
Folkestone Road/Malvern |
bomb |
| Doreen Hart |
Folkestone Road/Malvern. |
bomb |
| 5 October |
|
|
|
| 21 October |
five injured |
Stanhope Road |
bomb |
| 1 November |
three seriously injured, one slightly
injured |
|
shelling |
| 7 November |
seven injured |
Leyburne/Harold Road |
bomb |
1942
|
Date |
Name |
Location |
Notes |
| 23 March |
six seriously injured, five slightly
injured |
|
bombing |
| 3 April |
many (18 seriously injured, four slightly
injured) |
shelter in Union Road |
bomb |
| Warden J Warren |
Church R/Folkestone Road |
broken shoulder blade, damaged foot, bomb |
| Warden Edward Gandy |
ARP Post Union Road |
post lifted and toppled into crater of Union
Road Shelter, bomb |
| 24 July |
Mr Castle, roadsweeper |
100 Maison Dieu Road |
bomb fragment in leg |
| 5 September |
three women two men serious, three women two
men slight (or five seriously injured, twelve
slightly injured) |
1,2 Albert Road |
FW190 bomb |
| ordnance workers, slight |
Folkestone Road |
bomb |
| 6 September |
two women one man serious |
Pioneer Road |
shell |
| William Decort, butcher of Bench Street ARP
warden |
on his way to the Sea Front Air Raid Post |
struck by flying object in thigh, shell |
| three casualties |
Charlton Avenue/Priory Hill |
shell |
| 5 October |
three minor |
21 Priory Road |
shell |
| nine injured |
Adrian Street |
shell |
| Mr Page (probably Albert, brother to
Charles) |
Last Lane |
foot blown off, shell (may have lost leg to
subsequent gangrene) |
| Mr Marsh |
28 Adrian Street |
ear blown off, shell |
| Mrs Marsh |
29 Adrian Street |
severe thigh wound, shell |
| (or eight seriously injured, six slightly
injured) |
|
|
| 10 December |
two people (or two seriously injured, one
slightly injured) |
121 Snargate Street |
shell |
1943
|
Date |
Name |
Location |
Notes |
| 18 January |
Mr Foad, seriously |
Percival Terrace |
JU88 incendiary |
| 5 April |
Miss Watson |
6/7 The Paddock |
shell |
| two |
St James Church/Woolcomber |
shell |
| 1 May |
two slight casualties |
Union Road |
shell |
| 9 May |
Mrs Knights, slightly (or one slightly) |
13 Maison Dieu Road |
shell |
| 22 May |
Miss Chapman, seriously (one seriously
injured) |
126 Mayfield Avenue |
bomb |
| eleven slight (eleven slightly injured) |
Mayfield Avenue |
bomb |
| 27 June |
ten (seven seriously injured, one
slightly injured) |
Market Square/Cannon Street |
shell |
| 29 June |
three seriously injured, four slightly
injured |
|
shelling |
| 24 August |
one woman |
|
shell |
| Edward Austen, serious |
Edred Road |
shell |
| (or two seriously injured) |
|
shelling |
| 25 October |
Margaret Shearn, serious (eight seriously
injured, one slightly injured) |
Glenfield road |
shell |
| 3 November |
four |
Glenfield Road |
shell |
1944
|
Date |
Name |
Location |
Notes |
| 22 January |
Caroline Godsmark, Violet Hemmings, Albert
Nunns, Mrs Tugwell (or two seriously injured,
six slightly injured) |
Stanhope Road |
bomb |
| 20 March |
Mr and Mrs Smillie, serious (or one
seriously injured, one slightly injured) |
12/13 Prioress Walk |
shell |
| 7 June |
four women, one man |
Westmount YMCA |
shell |
| three |
27/29 Kitchener Road* |
shell |
| five |
Christchurch School |
shell |
| fourteen |
41 Albany Place |
shell |
| (or four seriously injured, three
slightly injured) |
|
shelling |
| 28 June |
two serious |
Priory Hill |
shell |
| 15 August |
two |
Fairview Terrace, Hougham |
V1 blown up by ack-ack |
| 29 August |
one serious, five others (or three
seriously injured, two slihgtly injured) |
35 St Radigund's Road |
shell |
| 1 September |
two slight |
29 Maison Dieu Road |
shell |
| two serious |
8/10 Odo Road |
shell |
| casualties |
Stembrook |
armour piercing shell |
| (or eight seriously injured, two slightly
injured) |
|
|
| 3 September |
casualties (four seriously injured, two
slightly injured) |
Horton's Yard, Charlton Green |
shell |
| 10 September |
seven |
London Road |
|
| 11 September |
(one seriously injured, two slightly
injured) |
|
shelling |
| 12 September |
casualties (seven seriously injured, nine
slightly injured) |
|
shelling |
| 13 September |
casualties |
Priory Station |
shell |
| ARP person |
38 Dour Street |
building collapse |
| family |
Charlton Green |
shock when home partially destroyed |
| seventeen slightly injured, twelve
slightly injured |
|
|
| 14 September |
one slight |
|
shell |
| two slight |
Churchill Street |
shell |
| 23 September |
Mrs Aspinall, two girls, one man, six women
serious, six slight (ten seriously injured,
eight slightly injured) |
Salvation Army Hostel, Snargate Street |
|
| 25 September |
two slight |
Victoria House, Union Road |
shell |
| two |
37 Edred Road |
shell |
| six serious, eight slight (or eight
seriously injured, nine slightly injured) |
97 London Road |
shell |
| 26 September |
five NFS slight |
Castle Street |
|
| five |
Stanhope Road |
shell |
| four |
Mitre pub, Snargate Street |
shell |
| (or five seriously injured, twenty
slightly injured) |
|
|
  * 27 Kitchener Road was the
home of
Maggie S-K's great-grandmother Elizabeth Easton (née Crascall) (left), widow of Isaac Easton.
The powder jar and candlestick
(above) are from a
dressing-table set belonging to Mrs Easton, two of the
very few items salvaged
from the damaged home. The break on the powder jar
handle, caused by the shell damage, can still be seen
(right).
|
