Bells to toll for bomb victims
8:03am Sat Feb 26, 2011
The bell of the second HMS Newark will toll a week today for the 41 factory workers who died when Ransome and Marles was bombed in the second world war.
The 11am chimes from the parish church will be followed by a two-minute silence, before the bell will be rung from the Town Hall steps.
It will sound once for each of the victims as their names are read out as part of the 70th anniversary commemorations of the bombing.
The names will be read by a former Mayor of Newark, Mr Chris Grant, whose father, Robert, was killed.
Ten bombs, five of which exploded, were dropped in two raids on the Northern Road factory on March 7, 1941.
Workers then came under machine-gun fire as they tried to flee.
The tribute on Saturday, March 5, organised by the Friends of Newark Cemetery, is part of three days of commemoration events, culminating, on Monday, March 7, by the unveiling of a permanent memorial to the bombing victims.
In addition to the 41 men and women killed, a further 165 people were injured.
On the Saturday and Sunday, the cemetery chapel interpretation centre will be open to the public from noon until 4.30pm, where there will be an exhibition of artefacts relating to the bombing.
Visitors can also see some of the victims’ graves.
On Monday, March 7, pupils at Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Primary School will ring their school bell at 2.24pm —the time of the second raid at the bearings factory.
The children, who have been studying the bombing for a project, will read a roll of honour to remember those who died.
There will be further opportunity for the public, from 3pm to 4.30pm, to view the cemetery chapel exhibition and pay their respects at the grave-sides.
On the Monday night, the town council will honour those who died in what was Newark’s single greatest loss of life.
Relatives of the victims will be at the Town Hall for the unveiling at 6pm of a memorial — made by NSK Europe — the successors of Ransome and Marles.
The memorial, in the staircase entrance to the Town Hall, will feature a large chrome-plated bearing, of the type made at the factory, and an item of memorabilia salvaged from 1941.
The names of the people killed will appear on a plaque on the memorial.
By laurencegoff
Newark was attacked 0n Friday 7th March 1941 As a result of this raid 29 men and 12 women were killed.
This most well know of all the raids on the Newark Town took place when Ransome and Marles’ Factory was bombed on Friday 7th March 1941 in the afternoon. The type of work carried out at the factory made it an obvious target by the Germans. The raid commenced at about 1:40pm. As a result of this raid 29 men and 12 women were killed. Sixty-five people were admitted to Newark Hospital and 100 more were treated at the works’ own underground hospital.
We will Remember the terrifying bombing and ultimate sacrifice with memories of loved ones for years to come. Not only, we still have many people around Newark who can still remember this event 70 years ago.
30 are buried in Newark Cemetery from the bombing of Ransome and Marles
Roll Call of Names that died
1, George Harold Henry Adams, aged 45 *
2, Wilfred Evelyn Andrew, aged 39 *
3, Olive Ash, aged 31 * O
4, Bertie Augustus Ball, aged 18 * O
5, Ernest Patrick Beale, aged 27, Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derby Regiment (Private) *
6, Edward Beaver, aged 26 (Buried in Mansfield) with no Tombstone
7, Harold Vincent Brown, aged 44 *
8, Vivian Maud Castle, aged 18
9, Enid Winifred Hall Cooper, aged 30 ( Buried in Balderton in St Giles Church Yard)
10, Edna May Cottam, aged 19 *
11, Gladys Cummings, aged 21 *
12, William Joseph Dixey, aged 62 *
13, Frederick Flowler, aged 39
14, George William Godridge, aged 29 * O
15, Robert Grant, aged 47, his son Chris was only five when his Father died, he became Newark town mayor 50 years later in 1991-1992 *
16, John Henry Green, aged 55, Volunteer Home Guard, 11th Nottinghamshire (Newark) *
17, Horace Grocock, aged 47 ( Buried in Barnby in the Willow)
18, Albert Robert Gyde, aged 42*
19, Rose Ellen Hall, aged 30 * O
20, James Hazelby Hanger, aged 29 *
21, Thomas McHallam Hardie, aged 26 *
22, Sybil Harriet Hayden, aged 34
23, Joyce May Kirton, aged 18
24, Lily Lambert, aged 22 * O
25, George Felix Lambley, aged 39 *
26, Edith Makins, aged 21 ( Buried in South Collingham)
27, Frederick William Mann, aged 46 * O
28, Frederick Markwell, aged 50 ( Balderton ?)
29, Claude Ware Hannah Martin, aged 36 *
30, Edwin E. Martin, aged 46 * O
31, Richard Naylor, aged 25 * O
32, Frederick William Packwood, aged 52 *
33, William Thomas Pepper, aged 18
34, Frederick Richards, aged 32 * O
35, Alfred Mayfield Ridge, aged 68 * O
36, Reginald William Senior, aged 35, died on the 8th March 1941 *
37, George Swanwick, aged 38 * O
38, Norah Trueblood, aged 34, *
39, Esther Evelyn Varney, aged 19, (her body was never found)
40, William Warner, aged 51 *
41 Arthur Worrell, aged 31 *
We Will Remember the Ransome and Marles Bombing 41 were killed 30 are buried in Newark Cemetery Nottinghamshire* A Star Buried in Newark Cemetery 20 in total have a Tombstone. O is put after names that do not have a Tombstone )
We will Remember them
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