WAR TRAGEDY
23 MEMBERS OF LONDON FAMILY. KILLED BY ONE BOMB. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) LONDON, May 19. The greatest personel tragedy of the war was revealed when a man, responding to the War Graves Commission’s request for details about the death of his daughter, brought complete records of his daughter and 22 other members of his family, all of whom had been killed by the same bomb in an East End raid. He was the sole survivor. Their names, with more than 42,000 others, will appear on the commission’s register of civilian war dead.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 May 1942, Page 3
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95WAR TRAGEDY Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 May 1942, Page 3
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