During the Second World War Kingston upon Hull spent more than 1,000 hours under air-raid alerts and was the target of the first daylight raid of the war and the last piloted air raid on Britain. The city was vulnerable because it was a port and industrial centre close to mainland Europe and situated on an estuary, which made it easy to find. The result of this was that Hull was the most severely damaged town or city in the country during the war, 95 per cent of its houses being damaged or destroyed.

City on Fire examines the air raids on Hull, the industries and infrastructure the raids targeted, how effective they were, the effects on the civilian population, the stories of some of the Civil Defence and rescue workers, how the raids were censored in the media at the time and the use of deception measures to try and protect the city. The book will also look at the aftermath of the war and the reconstruction of Hull.

ERRATA

Page 17, footnote 11 (page 119):

URL is now https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/6865511.

Page 23:

"The air raid sirens sounded at 22:55 on the 19th, but it was not until after midnight that a cluster of approximately fifty-four IBs Incendiary Bombs (IBs) landed in East Hull..."

Paragraph beginning "The IBs pierced several tanks at the site..." transposed in error. Should instead be placed before the paragraph beginning with "At 05:15 on 11 July a single enemy aircraft was seen over Hull..." on page 25.

Page 28:

"At 12:02 on the 26^th, an undetected PM - probably dropped two days previously - exploded in Alexandra Dock, sinking the lighters Monarch and Brakelu, and killing a dock worker two crew members."

Page 63:

"The time was nearly four o'clock when a bomb dropped on the shelter, and when I recovered I was in the Children's Hospital ^129A with Mrs Dove ^129B and Alice.
129A: The Victoria Hospital for Sick Children, where Florence Davis (as below) died; Alice died later at Base Hospital, Cottingham, so must have been transferred subsequently.
129B: This appears to refer to Florence May Rachel Davis, who was the daughter of Albert Edward Dove's late wife."
[Missing annotation]

Page 93:

"The total number of named deaths due to War Operations in Hull recorded by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) numbers 1,171 1,193. This includes fifteen 34 members of the armed services, and five of the Merchant Navy (four as civilian deaths, one as a service death).
...
In contrast there are no civilians individuals in the CWGC's records who cannot be reconciled with a death registration, either in Hull (1,148 1,173), Holderness (12), or elsewhere (8)."
[Four civilians deaths due to War Operations added to CWGC register after MS was completed, one civilian and 19 service deaths not previously confirmed as due to War Operations, and two civilians killed or injured outside of Hull included in error, as per Addenda below]

"One is female, three male, and two indeterminate; three are aged zero, one being a known air raid casualty."
[All are now known to be non-War Operations deaths, while the death of the known infant air raid casualty does not actually appear to have been registered]

"1 November 1940
Trotter, Max Frank - AFS Fireman (28) - assumed injured,⁴ died 04/11/1940 at BRI
4: Probably Injured while fire-fighting at Frodham Street. "Woman Killed in N.E. Raid," Hull Daily Mail, 01/11/1940, page 1, columns 6-7."

Page 94:

"22 February 1941
Oxley, Robert Lacy^4A (husband, 56^4B)
    Oxley, Violet (wife, 54^4B)
4A: Both the death registration and CWGC spell middle name as "Lacey," but birth and marriage registrations are "Lacy."
4B: Both the death registration and CWGC give age at death as 55, but the 1939 ID Card Register has date of birth as 17/07/1884.
4C: Both the death registration and CWGC give age at death as 53, but her birth certificate has date of birth as 27/12/1886 (1939 ID Card Register records 17/12/1886 in error).
[Corrected ages as per sources]

"25/26 February 1941
Florence, George Kenneth (26)⁶
Walker, Isaac (51)^6A
6: CWGC records death as 8 March 1941, date body found lockpit end of Alexandra Dock, as per death certificate. Electrical engineer on sunk barge/lighter.
6A: CWGC records death as 26 March 1941, date body found in lockpit of Alexandra Dock, as per death certificate. Captain of sunk barge/lighter."
...
"8 March 1941
Florence, George Kenneth (26) non air-raid death - exact cause unknown"
[As per death certificate]

"13/14 March 1941
Hopper, Annie (married sister, 71)^6A
    Senior, Eva - WVS (married sister, 63)
    Quest, Emily (unmarried sister, 62)
...
Senior, Eva - WVS (63)
...
Quest, Emily (62)"
6A: All three sisters died at Emily's home, 15 Wellesley Avenue. Annie's son, Lieutenant Commander Norman Hopper RNR, died in Grimsby on 17/10/1940, as the result of a fall. "Hull Officer's Death," Hull Daily Mail, 19 October 1940, page 3, column 6.
[Previously not grouped in error]

"Sanders, Clara Ann
    Sanders, Salisbury (adopted grandson^6B)
6B: Salisbury was the adopted son of Clara's daughter, Selina "Lena" Sanders. He was born in Lincolnshire on 20 May 1933 as Salisbury Waite, the son of Joyce Mabel Waite, the daughter of Dora Waite neé Smith. Clara's maiden name was also Smith, which - coupled with the choice of Salisbury's forename - suggests that they were actually related, but it has proved impossibe to determine exactly how. The Sanders family ran the Salisbury Nursing Home at 66-68 Cottingham Road, which had been in operation since 1933, and was named after Clara's father, Salisbury Rennels Sanders. Number 68 was wholly destroyed in the bombing (66 survives to this day), and the business moved to 136 Cottingham Road."
[Relationship and background omitted in error, later expanded]
...
"14/15 March 1941^64C
6C: Also on 15 March, Margaret Oddy (9) of 173 Waterloo Terrace died at Leeds General Infirmary, following an air raid on the city that killed her aunt and uncle, Fanny and Arthur Beaumont, with whom she was staying at the time. Some sources may erroneously count her as a casualty of the Hull air raid on the same night."
[Annotation went missing during the editing process!]
...
"Rawlings, George William (45) - injured, died 26 Mar 1943 at Hull Naval Hospital^6D
6D: Rawlings died due to pulmonary tuberculosis, but the Coroner determined that the injuries sustained when his home was bombed in this raid accelerated his death. "Blown Through Roof," Hull Daily Mail, 28 May 1943, page 3, column 6. This is the only known instance of the Hull Coroner making a determination on a War Operations death, as under wartime legislation, local authorities were empowered to declare one as such without an inquest."
[Exact circumstances not previously known]

Page 95:

"18/19 March 1941
Dixon, Phyllis (sister-in-law,⁷ 21)
    Faulkner, May Evelyn (sister-in-law, 32)
7: Phyllis Dixon née Faulkner was married to Edwin Dixon; the brother of May Faulkner née Dixon. May was married to an Arthur Faulkner, but his relationship to Phyllis - if any - is unclear who was Phyllis's second cousin, sharing a common great-grandfather."
[Actual relationship now known]

"Poole, Hannah Sayers (neé Cockerill, mother, 45 46^7B)
    Cockerill, Florence "Florrie" Margaret (daughter, 18 19^7C)
    Cockerill, Winifred "Winnie" (daughter), 14
7B: Death registration and CWGC state age as 45 in error; birth certificate confirms date of birth 29 March 1894.
7C: Death registration and CWGC state age as 18 in error; birth registration 4th quarter of 1921."

"Scales, Ellen Victoria (wife, 58^7D)^7E
    Scales, Albert George (husband, 55^7F)
7D: 1939 ID Card Register records date of birth as 3 January 1883; death registration and CWGC records age as 59 in error.
7E: Ellen's son from her previous marriage, air gunner Sergeant William "Bill" Michael Caine, 58 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, was killed on 9 July 1941, aged 28. He is buried in Jonkerbos War Cemetery (grave 20. G. 8.), Gelderland, Netherlands.
7F: 1939 ID Card Register records date of birth as 22 August 1885; death registration and CWGC records age as 56 in error."

"31 March/1 April 1941
Allsopp, James Harold - Driver, Royal Army Service Corps (28)⁸
8: "Deaths," Hull Daily Mail, 04 April 1941, page 3, column 7; Death certificate states body found Freehold Street, 2 April 1941; Buried in Hull Northern Cemetery (Compt. 241. Grave 30.)."
[As per death certificate; missing burial details]

Page 96:

"Leng, Leo Sidney - Gunner, 173 Battery, 62 Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (29)⁹
9: "Deaths," Hull Daily Mail, 04 April 1941, page 3, column 7; Death certificate states body found Freehold Street, 1 April 1941; Buried in Hull Northern Cemetery (Compt. 199. Grave 59.)."
[As per death certificate; missing burial details]

"Meggitt, Otto Fowler - Aircraftsman 2nd Class, RAF Volunteer Reserve (30)¹⁰
9: "Deaths," Hull Daily Mail, 04 April 1941, page 3, column 7; Death certificate states body found ARP Control, Ferensway, 31 March 1941; Commemorated Hull Northern Cemetery (Screen Wall)."
[As per death certificate; missing commemoration details]

"15/16 April 1941
Batty, Beatrice (16)
...
Jensen, Fanny (mother, 29)
    Jensen (son, 4 months)
    Batty, Beatrice (neice,^10C 16)
10C: Fanny Jensen neé Batty was the sister of Beatrice's father, Albert Batty
[Relationship not previously indicated in error]

Longthorn, George Herbert (39)^10D
10D: Brother of Harry Longthorn, died 7-8 May 1941."
[Relationship not previously noted]

Page 97:

"25 April 1941
Thrussell, John Robert (16) - assumed injured, died at same next day at ARI"
[Lived at 85 Council Avenue; 25 April 1941 fatalies were at 85 and 91 Council Avenue]

"5/6 May 1941
Rowe, John (13)"
[CWGC states died 5 May 1941 in error; death certificate confirms died with rest of family on 8 May 1941 - see below]

"7/8 & 8/9 May 1941
In contrast, CWGC records show the following totals for deaths or ultimately fatal injuries across the three days as:
    7 May = 35 39
    8 May = 237 240
    9 May = 120 125
    Total = 404 The 7th of May deaths obviously relate to the 7/8 May raid, as the 9 May ones do to 8/9 May raid,¹⁵ but the issue is those dated 8 May, which could be either. This total of 392 403 also falls short of the ANECT total of 420, but includes six 17 service personnel deaths (including probables), and it is entirely possible that there are more, which may well make up the shortfall."
Insert: "In addition, there are six death dates between 15 and 21 May, which analysis suggests were deaths or injuries during these raids." "Using a combination of newspaper death notices, classified raid reports, and cross-referencing casualty locations, what follows is an attempt to group the fatalities as best as possible, giving:
    7-8 May = 193 206
    8 May = 7 8
    8-9 May = 190 194
    Total = 408 [Corrected to include additional civilian and service deaths, as per addenda below]

"7/8 May "1941
Bush, Elizabeth (husband wife, 82)
    Bush, John William (wife husband, 75)"
[Relationships transposed in error]
...
Bushell, Stephen Henry, DSM¹³ - Chief Petty Officer, HMS Pembroke,¹⁴ Royal Navy (55)^{15 16} ...
14: Rather than being a ship, HMS Pembroke was the name used or a variety of shore stations. In 1941 Pembroke I and Pembroke II were accounting bases in Chatham, Kent, while Pembroke III was an accounting base on the Thames Estuary. Death certificate states, "of Naval Headquarters, Hull."
...
16: Death certificate states body found 8 May 1941, corner of Cranbourne Street and Albany Street; May have been killed on 7/8 or 8/9 May 1941; Buried in the Northern Cemetery (Compt. 295. Grave 77. Screen Wall, Centre Panel)."
[Additional details from death certificate]

Page 98:

"Dove, Albert Edward (father, 52)
    Davis/Dove, Florence May Rachel (step-daughter,¹⁷ 31 28) - died 14 May 1941 at VHSC
       Dove, Ronald (son of Florence,^17A 7 8)
       Davis, Amelia May (daughter of Florence, 6) [missing middle name]
       Davis, Brian (son of Florence, 4)
    Dove, Alice Victoria (daughter, 19) - assumed injured, died 13 May 1941 at BHC [missing middle name]
    Dove, Martha "Beatrice"^17B (daughter, 16)
    Dove, Albert Edward (son, 13) [missing middle name]
    Dove, Adelaide (daughter, 11)
17: Appears to be The daughter of Albert Dove's late wife, Rachel Ann "Doris" Dove née Davis, born in 1912, and thus prior to their marriage in late 1913. Florence's birth was re-registered in 1929 under the Legitimacy Act 1926, with Albert named as her father. This officially changed her surname to Dove, yet both her death registration and CWGC record have it as Davis, as does her son Ronald's birth certificate (see below). The CWGC and death registration erroneously record her age as 31, while the 1939 ID Card Register gives her date of birth as 26 November 1910, suggesting she was 30. In fact, both her orginal and re-registered birth certificates have her born on 26 November 1912, making her 28.
17A: The CWGC records Ronald, Amelia, and Brian - born between August 1932 and March 1938 - as the children, "of Albert Edward, and of the late Rachel Doris Dove," even though she died in mid-1931. Ronald's birth certificate - which has his surname as Dove - confirms "Florence May Rachel Dove" as his mother, with no father's details, while Amelia and Brian's birth registrations are both as "Davis," with their mother as "Florence May Rachel Davis." Note that the CWGC erroneously records Brian's age as 4, and Ronald's as 7, rather than 3 and 8 respectively (as per the 1939 ID Card Register, and birth and death registrations).
17B: Death registration and newspaper death notices refer to "Beatrice Dove" aged 15 (so born 1925-26), while the CWGC records the same name, but aged 16 (so born 1924-25). There is no birth registration that matches the name and dates, but there is one for a Martha Dove, the birth certificate for whom confirms her as being the child of Rachel and Albert, born on 16 June 1926, so just short of 15 at the date of death. Given that newspaper death notices do not refer to a "Martha" among surviving family members, it seems certain that Martha and Beatrice are in fact the same person.
[Ambiguity of relationships not previously addressed; ages corrected]

Dumbleton, Thomas Arthur – Engine Room Artificer 5th Class, HMS Beaver,¹⁸ Royal Navy (21)¹⁹
18: HMS Beaver II was the motor launch coastal forces based at Immingham.
19: Death registered in Hull certificate states body found 8 May 1941, Cranbourne Street; Buried in the Northern Cemetery (Compt. 295. Grave 78. (Screen Wall, Centre Panel).).
[Additional details from death certificate]

"Gardner, John (husband, 60)"
[Age missing in error]

"Freeman, Arthur (69)
...
Guy, Annie Elizabeth (wife, 78)
    Guy, Arthur (a.k.a. Freeman,^20A husband, 69)
20A: CWGC records Arthur's surname as Freeman, a.k.a. Guy, and death registration is Freeman. Birth and marriage registrations suggest Guy is correct, so unclear why Freeman is recorded."
[Previously listed separately and not linked; clarification r.e. Arthur's surname]

"Longthorn, Harry (31)^21A
21A: Brother of George Herbert Longthorn, died 15-16 April 1941".
[Relationship not previously noted]

Insert: "McKee, Lewis (65) - assumed killed
    White, Henrietta "Etty" (65) - assumed killed^21B
21B: The 1939 ID Card Register shows McKee and White's address of 33 Little Mason Street was in multiple occupancy, but they are listed as if a couple. The CWGC records their deaths as 16 May 1941, the date their death certificates state their bodies were found, presumably during recovery or salavage operations."
[Relationship not previously noted; probable date of death reassessed]

Insert: "Mason, Eleanor Ann (63) - assumed injured, died 17 May 1941 at BRI^22A
22A: A contemporary news report states that Eleanor Ann Mason collapsed in the street on 16 May 1941, with her death certificate recording that she died of a cerebral haemorrhage. It seems likely that she was injured in this raid, based on her home address, and known bomb damage in the vicinity. "Accident in Hull," Hull Daily Mail, 17/05/1941, page 3, column 4."

"Port, Stanley - Aircraftman 1st Class, 942 Balloon Squadron, 17 Balloon Centre, Royal Air Force [Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve] (27)²⁴
24: Death certificate states body found 8 May 1941, Island Pier. Buried in Upton St. Leonards (St. Leonard) Churchyard (South of church tower)."
[17 Balloon Centre not previously noted; Additional details from death certificate]

"Pratt, William - Home Guard (father, 33)
    Pratt, Hilary "Bunty" Mary Revell (daughter, 4)
...
Revell, Ada Maud (mother-in-law, 62)
    Revell, Ida (daughter-in-law,²⁵ 38)
       Revell, Sylvia (daughter of Ida, 10)
    Pratt, William - Home Guard (son-in-law,^25A 33)
       Pratt, Hilary "Bunty" Mary Revell (daughter of William, 4)
25: Ida was married to Ada's son, Arthur.
25A: William was married to Ada's daughter, Phyllis."
[Previously listed separately and not linked]

Page 99:

"Rowe, John (husband, 63)
    Rowe, Annie Elizabeth (wife, 51)
    Rowe, Ellen (daughter, 19)
    Rowe, John (son, 13)^26A
26A: CWGC states died 5 May 1941 in error; death certificate confirms died on 8 May 1941.
[As per death certificate - see above]

"8 May 1941 - raid unknown
Pockley, William - American citizen (48) - assumed injured, died 25 August 1942 at ARI"
[CWGC records died on 8 May 1941; death certificate states died 25 August 1942 at 188 Anlaby Road, i.e. Anlaby Road Institution; citizenship is unclear - there was a William Pockley with a birth registered in the March quarter of 1894 in Hull, who would therefore have been 48 at the date of death]

Insert: "Webber, Ernest - Firewatcher (56) - assumed killed^37A
37A: Death certificate states body found 21 May 1941 at Orange Shed, Albert Dock, presumably during recovery or salavage operations."
[Probable date of death reassessed]

"8/9 May 1941
Bedford, Jessie (mother, 45)
    Bedford, Frank (son, 20)
    Bedford, Alan (son, 15)
Bedford, Thomas William (husband, 40)
Bedford, Ruby Lilian (wife, 30)
...
Brown, Robert Verner - Firewatcher (53)
    Burwood, Charlotte (60)³¹
    Burwood, Violet (daughter30)
    Burwood, Eunice (daughter of Violet,³² 3)
31: Mother-in-law of Violet Burwood below.
32: Daughter-in-law of Charlotte Burwood above.
Bedford, Jessie (sister of Violet and Ruby^{31, 31A}/mother of Frank and Alan, 45)
    Bedford, Frank (son of Jessie, 20)
    Bedford, Alan (son of Jessie, 15)
    Burwood, Violet (sister of Jessie and Ruby³¹/daughter-in-law of Charlotte³²/mother of Eunice, 32^32A)
       Burwood, Eunice (daughter of Violet, 3)
       Burwood, Charlotte (mother-in-law of Violet/grandmother of Eunice, 60)
    Bedford, Ruby Lilian (sister of Jessie and Violet³¹, 30)
       Bedford, Thomas William (husband of Ruby, 40)^32B
31: Jessie, Violet, and Ruby were sisters, the children of Frank Broughton and Lilian Nelson.
31A: Jessie was married to Thomas's brother David Henry Bedford, thus also making her and Ruby sisters-in-law.
32: Violet was married to Charlotte's son Francis Henry Burwood.
32A: Death registration and CWGC state age 30 in error; birth registration was in the December quarter of 1908.
32B: "Deaths," Hull Daily Mail, 12 May 1941, page 2, column 7."
[Previously listed separately and not linked]

"Camm, Charlotte (55)^32A
32A: Charlotte was the aunt of Charles Ernest Camm, the husband of the Doris Camm who was killed in the air raid of 31 August/1 September 1941"
[Relationship not previously clear]
...
Collinson, Catherine Mercy (grandmother, 57)
    Dent, Edith (daughter, 37)
       Dent (son of Edith, 2)
       Dent, Albert (son of Edith, 13 months)
       Collinson, Dorothy (granddaughter of Catherine and neice of Edith, 12)"
[Previously listed separately and not linked]

Page 100:

"8/9 May 1941
Dent, Edith (mother, 37)
    Dent (son, 2)
    Dent, Albert (son, 13 months)
[Included within Collinson family above]

Insert: "Mason, William - Firewatcher (69) - assumed killed^34A
34A: Death certificate states body found Little Humber Street 15 May 1941, presumably during recovery or salavage operations."
[Probable date of death reassessed]

Fitchett, Thomas (husband, 67)
    Fitchett, Mary Jane (wife, 60)
    Hopper, Elsie (daughter of Thomas & Mary, 30)
    Fitchett, Mary (daughter-in-law of Thomas & Mary,³³ 23)
    Fitchett, Raymond (son of Mary, 4)
    Fitchett, Maureen (daughter of Mary, 17 months)
...
Hopper, Elsie (30)

Morriss, Annie Livingston - ARW (sister-in-law³⁵, 56)
    Morriss, Mary (sister-in-law, 62) - injured, died 10 May 1941 at BRI
35: Married to Mary's brother, Charles Arthur Morriss.
Morriss, Mary (sister, 62) - injured, died 10 May 1941 at BRI
    Morriss, Ann(i)e^34B Livingstone^34C - ARW (sister,³⁵ 56)
34B: Death registration and CWGC state "Annie"; birth registration confirms "Anne" as correct.
34C: Death registration and CWGC state "Livingston" in error; birth registration confirms "Livingstone" as per mother's maiden name.
35: "Deaths," Hull Daily Mail, 12 May 1941, page 2, column 7. Mary was married to Charles Arthur Morriss - their first cousin - and hence retained her maiden name.
[Previously mis-assumed relationship corrected and clarified]

Page 101:

"8/9 May 1941
Insert: "Scott, Frederick Walter (44) - assumed injured, died 18 May 1941 at RISB^35A
35A: Lived at 32 Ellesmere Street; Tom Edrick Farmery lived at 28 Ellesmere Street, and was injured there in this raid."
[Probable date of injury reassessed]

Staples, Ada Florie/Florence^35A (64)
35A: Death registration and CWGC state forename Ada; 1886 birth registation states "Ada Florie" (née Hardy), while 1906 marriage registration states "Ada Florence," and death notice states "Florence Ada." "Deaths," Hull Daily Mail, 12 May 1941, page 2, column 7.
[Forename variation not previously noted]

Stubbs, Amy (mother,^35B 32)
    Stubbs, Geoffrey (son, 19 months)
35B: Amy's husband - Private George Stubbs, Royal Artillery - was a prisoner-of-war at the time, having been captured at Dunkirk in May 1940. He was repatriated to the UK in September 1944, after been injured while working in a German coal mine, and was subsequently awarded the Military Medal for, "gallantry and distinguished service in action." "Hull Men in German Hands," Hull Daily Mail, 6 September 1940, page 3, column 5. "Hull Man's Return from Germany," Hull Daily Mail, 6 September 1940, page 3, column 5. "Receiving His Parchment," Hull Daily Mail, 9 February 1945, page 4, column 5.

Wardrop, Gladys (mother, 40)^37A
37A: Gladys Wardrop was also the mother of Gladys Bell née Wardrop, and grandmother to Carolyn Bell, who were both killed on 17-18 July 1941."
[Relationship between Gladys Wardrop and Glady Bell not previously clear]

"15 to 21 May 1941
The following deaths cannot be attributed to air raid activity. Eleanor Mason and Scott may have been injured elsewhere, while William Mason and Webber may have been involved in rescue work.
Died 15/05/1941 at Little Humber Street:
    Mason, William - Firewatcher (69)
Died 16/05/1941 at 33 Little Mason Street:
    McKee, Lewis (65)
    White, Etty (65)
Died 17/05/1941 at BRI:
    Mason, Eleanor Ann (63)
18/05/1941 RISB:
    Scott, Frederick Walter (44)
Died 21/05/1941 at Orange Shed, Albert Dock:
    Webber, Ernest - Firewatcher (56)"
[More probable dates of injury or death determined - see above]

"2/3 June 1941
Denton, Minnie (63)
Douglas, Ethel May (husband, 17)
Douglas, Henry (wife husband, 28)
    Douglas, Ethel May (wife, 17)
Elliott, George Herbert (18 - H.M. Coastguard Station, Holmpton, Withernsea)
Elston, Robert William (husband, 52)
    Elston, Ellen Mary (wife, 47)
    Elston, Bertha (daughter, 25)
    Martindale, Minnie (daughter, 21)
    Elston, Edna May (daughter, 18)
    Elston, Arthur (son, 17)
    Elston, Vera (daughter, 8^37C)
    Elston, Ellen (daughter, 23 months^37D)
    Denton, Minnie (sister of Robert, 53^37E)
Hewer, Kathleen Florence (26)
Jones, Elinor Elizabeth (78)
Martindale, Minnie (21)
37C: CWGC and death registration state age 6 in error; birth registration in September quarter 1932.
37D: CWGC states age 23 in error; 1939 ID Register shows DOB 18/06/1939, and death certificate states 23 months.
37E: CWGC and death registration state age 63 in error; 1939 ID Card Register shows DOB 6/01/1888.

Page 102

"15 July 1941
Airey, Ellen (daughter, 49)
    Cook, Madge (a.k.a. Airey,³⁹ 13)
...
Skelton, Elizabeth (mother, 80)
    Airey, Ellen (daughter, 49)
       Cook, Madge (a.k.a. Airey,³⁹ 13)
39. The relationship is unclear. Madge's unmarried mother, Gertrude May Cook, appears to have died in childbirth in 1928, and Madge possibly unofficially adopted by Ellen and her late husband, although there is no apparent connection between them and Gertrude."
[Relationship between Elizabeth Skelton and Madge Cook not previously clear]

"17/18 July 1941
Adamson, Gertrude (daughter, 34)
    Adamson, Leonard (son of Gertrude, 15)
...
Brock, Frederick Edward (husband, 57)
    Brock, Clara (wife, 56)
        Adamson, Gertrude (daughter, 34)
            Adamson, Leonard (son of Gertrude, 15)
[Relationship clarified]

"Bell, Gladys (mother, 20)^39A
39A: Gladys Bell née Wardrop was the daughter to Gladys Wardrop, and sister to Alexander and Shirley Wardrop, who were all killed on 8 May 1941. Gladys jnr's husband Arthur Edwin Bell was serving in the Royal Artillery, and he and their eldest child, Valerie, survived the War."
[Relationship between Gladys Bell and the Wardrops not previously clear]

Page 104

"Wing, May (mother, 38)⁴⁶
    Wing, Audrey (daughter, 7)
Wing, May (mother, 32)⁴⁷
    Wing, Peter Jason (son, 3)
46: Married to John Henry Wing (39), brother of Stanley Wing below, therefore sister-in-law to May (32), and aunt to Peter Jason.
47: Married to Stanley Wing (33), brother of John Henry Wing above, therefore sister-in-law to May (38), and aunt to Audrey."
[Relationship between Stanley Wing and John Henry Wing not previously clear]

"23 July 1941⁴⁸
Fletcher, Phoebe Rebecca (wife, 63)
    Fletcher, Henry Barlow (husband, 62)
48: The CWGC erroneously records these deaths as 27/07/1941. KPIB report states three unexploded PMs landed in Alexandra Dock on the night of 22/23 July 1941, with one denonating at 08:05 in the morning: "3 Motor Lighters were sunk." The death certificate for Henry gives his occupation as a "keelman," and both his and Phoebe's state that their bodies were found on 12 August 1941 at Sammy's point. It seems highly probable that they were both on one of the motor lighters sunk on 23 July, with their bodies - perhaps in the recovered wreck - recovered three weeks later.
[Additional details in footnote]

"18 August 1941
Birkbeck, David Milner - ARW (father, 51)
    Birkbeck, Ada Brenda (daughter, 16)
...
Clancy, Julia Ann (mother, 64)
    Clancy, Francis Joseph (son, Ordinary Seaman, HMS Pembroke, 31)⁴⁹
        Clancy, Edna May (wife of Francis, 25)
    Robinson, Jane (daughter of Julia, 28)
    Clancy, Mary Ann (daughter-in-law of Julia⁵⁰, 22)
    Worsnop, Robert Joseph (grandson of Julia⁵¹, 18)
49: Buried in Hull Eastern Cemetery (Compt. 289, Grave 56). He and Edna had only just got married.
50: Married to Julia Ann's son, James Clancy, who was also serving in the Royal Navy at the time.
51: Robert was the son of Julia Ann's other daughter (i.e. not Jane) by her first marriage. The CWGC erroneously dates his death as 17 August."
[Order, indentation, and note 49 expansion]

Dewson, Oliver Robert (husband, 74)
    Dewson, Catherine Eliza (wife, 74)
    Birkbeck,^51A David Milner - ARW (son-in-law,^51B 50^51C)
    Birkbeck, Ada Brenda (daughter of David, 15^51D)
51A: Birth certificate records surname as "Birbeck," but his marriage registration, and his and Ada's death registrations - as well as Ada's older brother's birth registration - are all as "Birkbeck."
51B: Married to Oliver and Catherine's daughter, Olive Dunn Birkbeck neé Dewson.
51C: Both the death registration and CWGC gives age at death as 51, but her birth certificate has date of birth as 27/12/1886 (1939 ID Card Register records 17/12/1886 in error).
51D: Both the death registration and CWGC gives age at death as 16, but while there is no obvious trace of her in the 1939 ID Card Register, her birth was registered in the December quarter of 1925, suggesting she was actually 15.

Ryall, Norman Sidney^51E (husband, 62)
Ryall, Alice (wife, 63^51F)
...
Woodward, "Reginald" Horatio^52A (59^52B)^52C
51E: 1939 ID Card Register and death registration record middle name as "Sydney" in error; birth register and CWGC both record "Sidney."
51F: 1939 ID Card Register records date of birth as 2 August 1878; death registration and CWGC record age as 62 in error.
52A: Birth certificate records forename as "Horatio" only; 1939 ID Card Register records forename as "Reginald" only (i.e. no middle name or initial).
52B: 1939 ID Card Register records date of birth as 25 June 1880, implying age at death as 61; death registration records age as 60; and CWGC as 63. Birth certificate confirms born 25 June 1882, so actually 59.
52C: 1939 ID Card Register records residence as 23 (Little) Great Thornton Street, the same as Norman and Alice Ryall above, which CWGC records as their place of residence and place of death. CWGC records Woodward as living and dying at "Thornton Street," but death certificate states body found at 25 Little Great Thornton Street, with no home address stated."

"31 August/1 September 1941
"Camm, Doris (29)^53A
53A: Doris was the wife of Charles Ernest Camm, the nephew of the Charlotte Camm who was killed in the air raid of 8/9 May 1941"
[Relationship not previously clear]

"Sanders, Ethel (aunt, 42) - injured, died at FAP
    Sanders, Dorothy Lilian (neice, 10) - injured, died at HRI"
[Injured in Hedon Municipal Borough, not Hull]

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"1 November 1941
Markham, Annie Elizabeth (60)"
[Died 1940, CWGC records 1941 in error - see Addendum below]

"24 November 1941

March, John Henry – Section Leader, Hull Fishing Vessels Association Fire Service (54)^54A
54A: CWGC states died at St Andrew's Dock. Death certificate states drowned after falling from quayside into the Humber on 24 November 1941, with body found 1 July 1942, "in a creek near the foreshore of the River Trent at Alkborough," North Lincolnshire. He was presumably on Fire Service duty at the time of death.
[As per death certificate]

"20 May 1942
Clarkson, Walter William (father, 56)
Clarkson, Walter William "Billy" (son, 17)
[Nickname added]

"Greaves, Edith ("aunt,"⁵⁹ mother, 82)
    Boothby, Ida (daughter, 22)
    Boothby, Ada Florence (daughter-in-law of Edith,⁵⁹ 24)
        Boothby, Margaret Edith (daughter of Ada, grand-daughter of Edith, 2)
59: "Deaths," Hull Daily Mail, 22/05/1942, page 4, column 9. Describes Ada and Ida as "nieces" to Edith, but the exact relationship is unclear. Ada was married to Edith's son, Alfred Samuel Boothby.
[Relationship between Edith Greaves and others not previously clear]

Hayler, Benjamin John (husband, 69)
    Hayler, Sarah Jane (wife, 51)
    Hayler, Lily Florence May (daughter, 30)
    Hayler, Violet (daughter, 22)
    Hayler, Margaret Elizabeth (daughter, 21)
    Boothby, Annie Frances (married daughter,⁶⁰ 26)
    Holland, Ivy (married daughter, 24)
    King, George William ("uncle,"⁶⁰ brother of Sarah Jane, 45)
60: "Family of Seven Killed," Hull Daily Mail, 25/05/1942, age 3, column 6. Describes King as "Uncle" to the family, but the exact relationship is unclear. Married to Herbert Boothby, who was serving in the Royal Corps of Signals at the time. There is no apparent close connection with the Boothby/Greaves family members killed on the same day."
[Relationship between George King and others not previously clear]

"Jubb, Evison "Bob" ^60A (father, 64)
    Jubb, Harry (son, 24) - assumed injured, died 24 July 1942 at ARI^60B
60A: The 1939 ID Card Register spells his forename as "Everson," but birth, marriage, and death registrations all use "Evison."
60B: CWGC states of 33 Granville Street, injured there on 24 July 1942, and died same day at ARI. Death certificate states of 100 Worcester Road, with cause of death initially stated as, "Acute septic meningitis due to osteomyelitis of the anterior cranial fossa of the skull following head injuries sustained during enemy action P.M. [Post Mortem]" This was subsequently struck out, and replaced with the usual, "due to war operations." The 1939 ID Card Register shows him living at 10 Humber Avenue, at the north end of Scarborough Street, off Hessle Road (the current Asda Superstore straddles and completely covers what had been this end of Scarborough Street). It seems likely that Harry was actually injured at 10 Humber Avenue when his father was killed there on 20 May 1942, and that he subsequently resided briefly at Granville Street and/or Worcester Road, before being hospitalised.
[As per death certificate & 1939 ID Card Register]
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