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Sorry my mistake.
First bombing raid on Southampton,night 19th June 1940,duration three and a half hours.Millbrook and Redbridge badly hit. Dibden Purlieu church destroyed by fire.
Reference; Bitterne Local History Society.

Very recently have unearthed the correct person on the Minnedosa sailing to Montreal 1923 sept.
William Macpherson age 22,listed as a passenger, turns out to be an interesting guy,Walter Dugald Macpherson,pre ww2 flying ace,later London solicitor born 1901 Kensington,death 1991.
His correct details are given on the St Albans Border Crossing for this Minnedosa sailing,Sep 1923.
My initial interest being the Humphries family also on board from Winterbourne Stoke, Salisbury,wife being a distant Dyer cousin of my mother.
There is plenty of information re Walter Dugald Macphersons well known flying career,and his plane on line. For anyone interested Cheers Brionne.

Best way to make sure, is to obtain the birth certificate,reference I quoted is from Free bmd.
1909 just unfortunately before mothers maiden names were put on records.

There is a possibility that he was buried in the grounds of the workhouse,unmarked grave.

Its quite outrageous that this large imposing building has just been left to rot, when so many homeless folk need a roof over their heads.The history of the house in itself is surely worth investigating in detail anyway.