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Mrs Ada Elizabeth Bowden |
Born |
Age |
Address |
Radstock |
69 |
Firlands, The Folly |
Date of Death |
Where killed |
Cause of Death |
25/04/1942 |
Firlands, The Folly |
Killed in air raid |
Cemetery |
Plot |
Country |
Hardenhuish (St Nicholas)
Churchyard |
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England |
Next of Kin |
Next of kin address |
Town |
Frederick Bowden |
Firlands, The Folly |
Chippenham |
Notes |
1901 Census shows the
family living at Main Road, Codford St Mary. Frederick is listed as a
Railway signal man
Firlands, The Folly, Chippenham Without. Husband of Ada Elizabeth Bowden.
Died at Firlands, The Folly.
Bath Bombed on the 25 and 26 April
Market Town Bombed
During Saturday nights raid by enemy aircraft on Bath and the West, one of
the Nazi machines made a lightening dive bombing attack on a market town, as
a result of which 2 persons were Killed in action, two others were detained
in hospital and a number of others sustained minor injuries.
Four bombs were dropped in this attack, 3 of them running in a line
diagonally across the gardens of a row of houses. The fourth scored a direct
hit on a house - the last house in a road leaving the western side of the
town - and it was in this house that the two fatalities occurred.
The dead couple were a retired railway man and his wife. The man had gone
upstairs and his wife was seated in a downstairs room were their daughter
who is a teacher at a secondary school in a neighbouring town. The house was
reduced to a heap of debris, the chimney stack remaining in the centre of
the pile and the daughters escape may, without exaggeration, be described as
miraculous. She was apparently blown out of the house by the blast and was
found walking in the road by ARP workers who rushed to the scene. She stated
afterwards that she suddenly saw a hole appear in the ceiling of the room in
which she was sitting with her mother and the next thing she knew was when
she was found in the road. The bodies of her parents were recovered from the
wrecked building 2 hours later.Wiltshire
Times 2 May 1942
Miss Hilda Bowden and her relatives wish to express their great
appreciation of the kindness of their many friends who have shown deep
sympathy in their recent bereavement also of the lovely flowers
Wiltshire Times 9 May 1942
Mr and Mrs Bowden's son
Harold Roy Bowden was killed during
the First War |
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14/01/2011
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