Ransome and Marles Newark-On-Trent attack Friday 7th March 1941
Bert Emerson helped rescue other survivors of the bombing at Ransome and Marles Newark-On-Trent on 7th March 1941. The factory was targeted because it made ball bearings for the defence in our country. Exhibition of Ransome and Marles at the Chapel Interpretation Centre at Newark Cemetery open by appointment.
Newark in the Second World War records the events surrounding the bombing of the Ransome and Marles bearing factory at Newark-on-Trent. On Friday 7th March 1941 the most well known of all the raids on [Newark-On-Trent] took place when Ransome and Marles factory was bombed. The type of work carried out at the factory made it an obvious target.
Roll Call of Names that died
Newark Cemetery tours of the Ransome & Marles 30 are buried out of 41 that died. Memorial Cross will posted at each grave.
Newark Ransome and Marles' Factory air raid, 7th March 1941.
Newark's R&M Roll Of Honour
Names that died
1, George Harold Henry Adams, aged 45 * (ED307)
2, Wilfred Evelyn Andrew, aged 39 * (ED303)
3, Olive Ash, aged 31 * O (EK253)
4, Bertie Augustus Ball, aged 18 * O (EQ207)
5, Ernest Patrick Beale, aged 27, Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derby Regiment (Private) * (WG288)
6, Edward Beaver, aged 26 (Buried in Mansfield) with no Tombstone
7, Harold Vincent Brown, aged 44 * (EQ149)
8, Vivian Maud Castle, aged 18 (Buried All Saints Church Elston)
9, Enid Winifred Hall Cooper, aged 30 ( Buried in Balderton in St Giles Church Yard)
10, Edna May Cottam, aged 19 * (WT303)
11, Gladys Cummings, aged 21 * (ED305)
12, William Joseph Dixey, aged 62 * (EO145)
13, Frederick Fowler, aged 39 - Lived on Long Street Great Gonerby, Grantham - is buried in the Churchyard of St Sebastians C of E Church, Great Gonerby, Grantham
14, George William Godridge, aged 29 * O (EH247)
15, Robert Barnsdale Grant, aged 47, his son Chris was only five when his Father died, he became Newark town mayor 50 years later in 1991-1992 * (EG237
16, John Henry Green, aged 55, Volunteer Home Guard, 11th Nottinghamshire (Newark) * (WG308)
17, Horace Grocock, aged 47 ( Buried in Barnby in the Willow)
18, Albert Robert Gyde, aged 42* (WS305)
19, Rose Ellen Hall, aged 30 * O (EI151)
20, James Hazelby Hanger, aged 29 * (WR300)
21, Thomas McHallam Hardie, aged 26 * (ED304)
22, Sybil Harriet Hayden, aged 34 of Ivy Farm Cottage Kirklington Newark Notts buried at Hatfield Hyde Cemetery Hollybush Lane, Welwyn Garden City, Herts AL7 4JU -
23, Joyce May Kirton, aged 18 (Buried In Long Bennington)
24, Lily Lambert, aged 22 * O (EH249)
25, George Felix Lambley, aged 39 * (WD178)
26, Edith Makins, aged 21 ( Buried in South Collingham) - located
27, Frederick William Mann, aged 46 * O - (EG238)
28, Frederick Markwell, aged 50 (St Giles Churchyard Balderton )
29, Claude Ware Hannah Martin, aged 36 * (WT178)
30, Edward E. Martin, aged 46 * (ED302)
31, Richard Naylor, aged 25 * WC175)
32, Frederick William Packwood, aged 52 * (WS304)
33, William Thomas Pepper, aged 18, Buried in Caunton Churchyard
34, Frederick Richards, aged 32 * O (WL306)
35, Alfred Mayfield Ridge, aged 68 * O -WF309)
36, Reginald William Senior, aged 35, died on the 8th March 1941 * (WQ305
37, George Swanwick, aged 38 * O (EQ257)
38, Norah Trueblood, aged 34, * (WP305)
39, Esther Evelyn Varney, aged 19, (never found) Street will be named Esther Varney Place, Newark NG24 1FU
40, William Warner, aged 51 * (WB282)
41, Arthur Worrell, aged 31 * (ED306)
Newark's tribute, we will Remember the people that died during Ransome and Marles Bombing. 41 were killed 30 are buried in Newark Cemetery Nottinghamshire* A Star Buried in Newark Cemetery 21 in total have a Tombstone. 9 have a O after names that do not have a Tombstone, in a unmarked grave. I have located most of the graves.
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