Skegness Magazine

This page is an ongoing project in which we are investigating the civilians who lost their lives in Skegness, and the stories behind their deaths.

The list below is chronologically ordered and the names are clustered into the losses during each enemy attack. Up to present, we have found six separate bombing raids which resulted in loss of life. We will hyperlink each of the names as we find the newspaper articles, and include photographs of the graves as we discover them.

Thanks to Julie Hawkesford for her help with this project.

Civilian War Dead  who lost their lives in Skegness

BRADLEY, MALCOLM GORDON
4
23/08/1940
Son of Gordon Bradley. Died at 13 Park Avenue.

DOWLMAN, BRENDA MARY
12
23/08/1940
Daughter of Frank and Frances Dowlman, of 22 Hope Gardens. Died at 13 Park Avenue.

HERSHBERG, CHARLES ABRAHAM
60
18/01/1941
Husband of Jennie Hershberg, of 132 Lumley Road. Died at Charles Cafe, Lumley Road.

MORGAN, OWEN KENRICK
44
24/01/1941
Son of Owen Thomas and Florence Jane Morgan, of “Castleton”, Radyr, Glamorgan; husband of Dorothy Dane Morgan, of Cartref, Sunningdale Drive. Injured 18 January 1941, at Rutland Road; died at Cottage Hospital.

EVANS, BARRY
8
10/05/1941
of 13 Saxby Avenue. Son of Albert Edward and Constance Evans. Died at 13 Saxby Avenue

FARROW, ERNEST
47
14/06/1941
Son of Thomas and Sarah Farrow, of The Rookery, Wainfleet Road; husband of Elsie Farrow, of 124 Wainfleet Road. Died at Deans Farm, Wainfleet Road

BALL, ELLEN MARIA
64
27/07/1942
of 149 Rosecroft Drive, Daybrook, Nottinghamshire. Daughter of the late John Smith Moody and Rose Hannah Moody; widow of Thomas Christopher Ball. Died at 8 Lumley Crescent.

CHADWICK, GERTRUDE
68
27/07/1942
of Stella Maris, Lumley Avenue. Daughter of the late Thomas and Mary Whitworth, of Nottingham; wife of Samuel Joseph Chadwick. Died at Stella Maris, Lumley Avenue.

KIRK, LAURA
56
27/07/1942
of 63 Lumley Avenue. Wife of Henry Kirk. Died at 63 Lumley Avenue.
SHAW, ADA MARY
58
27/07/1942
of 8 Lumley Crescent. Daughter of the late John Smith Moody, and Rose Hannah Moody; wife of Edmund Shaw. Died at 8 Lumley Crescent.

SHAW, FLORENCE LILIAN
27
27/07/1942
of 8 Lumley Crescent. Daughter of Edmund Shaw, and of Ada Mary Shaw. Died at 8 Lumley Crescent.

BIRCH, CATHERINE
25
24/10/1942
Daughter of William and Eliza Atley, of 3 California, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire; wife of Flt./Sgt. Norman Birch, R.A.F. (killed in same incident). Died at Park Avenue.

Civilian War Loses inscribed on the Cenotaph at St Matthew’s Church, Skegness:

Chadwick, Gertrude
Kirk, Laura
Shaw, Ada M
Shaw, Florence L
Farrow, E
Herchberg, A C
Morgan, K
Barrington, E E
Bradley, M G
Daniels, G H
Evans, B