Sister Killed, Four Nurses Injured Stories of miraculous escapes and high courage A Sister was killed and hours nurses severely injured when German raiders deliberately attacked a South-East hospital during Wednesday night. High explosive and oil bombs were dropped and a kitchen an the female reception ward suffered most. While nurses and patients were being rescued from the debris caused by the first attached the enemy came back and dropped a 1,000lb bomb outside one of the newer hospital buildings. Despite their terrifying experiences, nurses, doctors and rescue workers carried…
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Ancient Church Damaged, 1940
Stained Glass Destroyed An ancient Parish Church in S.E. England was damaged during a recent air raid. A bomb fell near the building and smashed the beautiful stained glass and did some damage to the fabric. Te Rector, who is doing .R.P. work, was engaged during the raid looking after the needs of his parishioners when the church was hit. He is grieved over the loss __ by the smashing of the stained glass, which must have been at least three hundred years old. The church is built of flint and…
Farm Wiped Out
Bomb Havoc Over a Mile It took a German bomb a matter of seconds to wipe out an ancient farm in a South-East urban district and spread damage among other buildings for over a mile on Thursday evening last week. Farm buildings, which had stood on this spot for years, and which were among the last remaining traces of the once rural character of this rapidly developed and modernised district, crumpled under the blast of a terrific explosion and in an incredibly short space of time became a desolate heap…
Father And Daughter Killed
Mother had gone to Hospital Seven Bombs on S.E. Area Wife Killed: Husband and son injured Tragedy came to two houses in a South-East residential area on Tuesday morning when an enemy plane came from behind a dark cloud and dropped seven bombs. Several dropped at a road junction and in a garden, making wide craters, and three on or near houses in three different roads. A father and his daughter were killed and another daughter gravely injured. In another house a women was killed, but her husband injured and…