Bombing in Oldham, World War II

[Joyce C]

Hello

Does anyone have any information about the bomb which killed several people and injured many others after falling on houses in Abbey Hills Road, Oldham?  I have recently been told that a relative of my Grandmother was killed, along with her young son - all the more poignant because the father of the household was away fighting in Europe at the time. Unfortunately I don't have the names of the family members.

All I have been able to find via internet was that the bomb fell on Christmas Eve (do not know which year) destroying many houses, but newspapers were not allowed to publish details at the time because of wartime censorship.

Thank you
Joyce

[stanmapstone]

I can't see any civilian war dead listed in the Oldham cemeteries on the CWGC site http://www.cwgc.org/
Stan

[stanmapstone]

The year was 1944 It was a V1 Flying Bomb apparently and 32 people were killed according to http://aircrashsites.co.uk/air-raids-bomb-sites/v1-flying-bomb-site-oldham/

Stan

[stanmapstone]

I can't see any civilian war dead listed in the Oldham cemeteries on the CWGC site http://www.cwgc.org/
Stan

See http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead.aspx?cpage=1&sort=name&order=asc

Stan

[Joyce C]

Hi Stan

Thank you so much for the information you sent. I have been fascinated reading the personal accounts on the site.  It has given me more to go on, and I hope to find out more eventually.

Many thanks once again

Joyce

[heatherjulie]

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/local-news/survivor-of-nazi-bomb-calls-for-memorial-1158081

[stanmapstone]

I can't see any civilian war dead listed in the Oldham cemeteries on the CWGC site http://www.cwgc.org/
Stan

See http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead.aspx?cpage=1&sort=name&order=asc

Stan

If this link does not work just enter Oldham, County Borough and nothing else in the search box.

Stan

[uk2003]

Quick gander at the burial registers - hope these help in your hunt

Lees Cemetery
Stanley Jones (27) buried 1/1/45
Irene Jones (22)        "        "
143 Abbey Hills Road

Hollinwood Cemetery
Norman L Travis (19) Buried 29/12/44
Keith P Travis (19)         "           "
146 Abbey Hills Road

Mary Ashton (48) Buried 29/12/44 ********
Allen Ashton (18Mth) "          "       ********

7 unidentified Remains Buried 29/12/44 *******

Hannah Mary Holmes (?) Buried ? ********

* All bodies exhumed 13th Oct 1954 and re-interred in Greenacres Cemetery

Chadderton Cemetery
Sarah Ann Brown (67) Buried 29/12/44
306 Abbey Hills Road

Charles Arthur Jackson (51) Buried 29/12/44
Eva                      "      (51)     "           "
132 Abbey Hill Road

Clara Hardy (69) Buried 29/12/44
Emily     "    (65)     "           "
128 Abbey Hills Road

Malcolm Graham Hulton (18Mth) Buried 29/12/44
151 Abbey Hills Road

George Denton Roe (51) Buried 30/12/44
Alice                   "   (44)      "          "
Norman              "   (17)      "          "

Eveline Martin (32) Buried 3/1/45
201 Abbey Hills Road

*******(Greenacres registers for this period are missing) 

[heatherjulie]

Hannah Mary Holmes
145 Abbey Hills Rd;Oldham
47 Years
Greenacres
Section G14
Grave 219