Newark's 80th Anniversary Commemoration, Ransome and Marles Ball Bearings Air Raid
7th March 1941-2021 - 80th Anniversary Commemoration
By Laurence Goff
Newark Ransome & Marles' Factory Bombing - Their 80th Anniversary Commemorations on Sunday 7th March 1941-2021. On Friends of Newark Cemetery behalf, by Laurence Goff Special Presentation of Photos, Videos & News. Remembering Newark. To Those Who Have Paid The Ultimate Sacrifice For Our Freedom. Click on the link https://photos.app.goo.gl/W8oBEdDdkZdHa2v1A
Many untold stories of those whose lives were affected by the bombing of a Newark factory during the second world war.“It must have been horrendous,” “ years later there are still many untold stories.”The raid began when many workers were returning from lunch at about 1.40pm. A low-flying Heinkel bomber approached the factory from the south along the railway line. Two bombs landed in the factory, another on the street and a fourth on an air-raid shelter next to nearby Stanley Street. The plane then passed over again and dropped a further bomb, which did not explode.There was another attack at 2.25pm when five bombs were dropped. One exploded and wounded many of the rescue workers.
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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 an O after names that do not have a Tombstone, in an unmarked grave. I have located most of the graves.