Grave of Keith Kime
Grave: Keith W Kime
Death date: 3rd August 1940
Birth date: June Q 1938
Age at death: 2 years
Graveyard: St Clement’s Church, Skegness
Connected names: Godfrey (mother’s maiden name)
Commonwealth War Graves St Clement's Church Skegness
Name
Rank
Service
Regiment
Date Of Death
Age
Grave/Memorial Ref.
ABLITT , W
Private
2156
Suffolk Regiment
24/04/1916
Unknown
Grave
ALSOP, SAMUEL HAYWOOD, S H
Sergeant ( Pilot )
1006349
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
12/10/1941
19
Plot 35. Grave 16.
ATKINS, WILLIAM EVAN, W E
Warrant Officer ( Pilot )
741156
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
21/01/1943
Unknown
Grave 843.
ATKINSON, HERBERT ANTHONY, H A
Company Serjeant Major
12/838
York and Lancaster Regiment
09/07/1916
34
BARLING, SYDNEY ROY, S [...]
Civilian War Dead Skegness
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 [...]
Two Children Killed in Skegness Air Raid
This 1940 story gives account of the tragic death of a small boy, who was related to Dawn Bradley of the Skegness Library, and his cousin. The house which was bombed was The Red House , 13 Park Avenue (corner of Scarbrough Avenue), Skegness.
TWO CHILDREN KILLED IN AIR RAID ON EAST COAST TOWN
TWO little children, [...]
Man Who Found Skegness Water
FOUND SKEGNESS WATER
Death of Mr. Percy Griffith
THE DEATH has just occurred of Mr. Percy Griffith, M Inst C E., aged 75. He was the consulting water engineer who was engaged by the Earl of Scarbrough in 1905 to advise upon and carry out the construction of the new waterworks for Skegness.
Previous to this time the [...]
Butlins Zoo Animals War Evacuation
Butlins Bear Saved After Other Zoo Animals Destroyed
Nicholas, the fine Polar bear who came to Butlin’s Skegness from Bognor, was found a new home “for the duration” during the Second World War, thus escaping the death edict which was the alternative to his evacuation from Skegness.
He left the resort by road in July, 1940 for [...]
Skegness Furniture Shop Proprietor's Death
Mr Charles Lane, Skegness furniture shop owner dies
May 1940
Bullet Hole in Washed-up Body
An Act of War
The body of a male person which was washed ashore on the north beach of Skegness in March, 1940 was found to have a bullet hole through the chest and the man was presumed to have met his death through “an act of war”.
The body was in an advanced state of decomposition, [...]
Body Found in Myrtle House Back Garden Well – Suicide
1940
Wriggled himself into cistern
Sad end to well-know Skegness man
Stone slab removed to recover body.
The tragic story of how one of the most familiar figures in Skegness rose early in the morning, made his wife a cup of tea, advised her to have a lie-in while he enjoyed a pipe of tobacco, then drowned himself in [...]
