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Just been a report on EAST Midlands Today that a memorial was unveiled at Rolls Royce Derby. To the people killed in 1942 when a single airplane dropped one bomb on the factory. Three houses were also damaged.The full story is on the BBC news site .
Hi Kelly
Ruffs Drive, is on the corner with Laughton Crescent where the Evans were killed, when an RAF Fairey Battle aircraft crashed.
The 5 EVANS are all registered in the December Quarter 1940, in the Registrstion District of BASFORD on two adjacent pages.
Rolls Royce Hucknall shared the aerodrome with RAF Hucknall. But he / she might be an RAF / Ministry of Aircraft Production (MAP), or an Air Ministry Dept, or Civil aircraft firm on contract to a Ministry or RAF, Casualty.
If your Hallam relative was killed in England & Wales, his / her name should be registered on the General Register Office Index.
Mark
The woman was called Brenda Hallam and was my mother's bridesmaid when she married in 1939, my mother was Margaret Housley nee Thorpe....they worked together at the Meadow Dairy in Nottingham, which incidently was also bombed in the war....My mum says you could hear the pigs squealing for miles.......was a terrible time.......The gap in the houses on Ruffs Drive is still there.........my mother's family were called Thorpe and lived at 330 Westville........
My grandmother knew the family who were killed and their name was Hallam as my mother was friendly with their daughter called Brenda who was killed.........
Hi Kelly , Libralady and All
If you do a search for HALLAM Brenda for 1939 to 1945 you will only get two for England and Wales, both in 1940 and both under 1 year old. I'm not sure how complete their WW 2 indexing is.
https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/search.pl
The July, August, September 1940 Quarter has one Death with Brenda Hallam registered in the REGISTRATION DISTRICT of Nottingham, for the whole of WW 2. (Unfortunately you can't double check WW 2 on GRO (gov.uk) Order a Certificate, for free, because the most recent indexed was 1916). You can still get the details off the Free BMD Image to order direct from GRO, but ordering is too risky without more research.
Looking at the Air Raids list (a newspaper list, so not exhaustive), a child was claimed to be killed in a raid on 30th August 1940. The child's name was not mentioned and there may be children amongst the other raid casualty figures too.
The Censor stopped the newspaper saying exactly where bombs fell, to prevent the Germans from checking the accuracy of their radio beam system guided aircraft. But quite often the affected City ran the account in the newspaper, just saying a Midlands Town or City, for City.
The Nottingham Journal of Monday 2 September 1940, confirms a Baby 18 months has been killed in the Midlands (a big area). The baby was taken to hospital and died on Saturday.
This and 1939 to 1945 needs researching at the main Local Studies or Nottingham County Archives, who should have some Civilian Casualty Cards of War Deaths, or files of the War Committee / Civil Defence / Fire Brigade Occurrence or Report Books/ ARP Minute Files, Ambulance Books, Police, or a surviving Emergency Planning Register. Usually, one record survives, but how detailed. If a council house, some of their files are in archives, or Committees dealing with rebuilding, or rehousing those affected.
A lot of people moved in WW 2, but sometimes a pre-war street Directory or Electoral Register may help to confirm the family name at an address, when only the address and casualty numbers are given at an address, to enable you to research further.
If you feel two Hallams have died, you can check Hallam only Deaths by the Quarter or Year too.
How reliable is the name Brenda for Hallam? But try an email to the Main Local Studies Library and the County Archives? Of course a child might be born, before the parents married having the mother's surname, so in the Deaths Register there won't be Hallam, that is if you are looking for a child?
Brenda could be a middle name, but middle names were only indexed as initials in some of these Registrar indexes.
A family recalling verbally the death was at Rolls Royce (RR), could mean killed in the raid on RR, but not on RR premises.
A copy Full Death Certificate will cost £9.25, but some may not mention raids, but died in hospital. It is too risky to order a Certificate, but make further enquiries.
Regards Mark
My grandmother knew the family who were killed and their name was Hallam as my mother was friendly with their daughter called Brenda who was killed.........