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Victims of Coventry's air-raids

list of those who fell victim to the bombing raids or World War Two in Coventry. My sincere thanks to Peter Garbett for compiling this information using records available at Coventry's Archives at The Herbert.
(Please note, as of November 2020 this is still an ongoing and very incomplete project, so many names will be missing.)

Select air-raid date: 28th Aug 194016th Sep 194017th Sep 194012th Oct 194013th Oct 194014th Oct 194015th Oct 194019th Oct 194020th Oct 194021st Oct 194022nd Oct 194023rd Oct 194024th Oct 194027th Oct 194029th Oct 19401st Nov 19405th Nov 194014th Nov 1940All raids

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(The dates given are for the evening the raid began, even if the casualties occured early the following morning.)

Showing victims of the 28th Aug 1940 raid (ordered by Raid Date)

Records found: 16  Click the Raid date, Location or Surname headers to order the table.
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Location	First name(s)	Surname	Age	View Documents	Notes
Coventry and Warwickshire Hospital	Iris Jane	Ashman	20	[6]	Hide information
Swanswell Street	Desmond	Callaghan	16	[4]	Hide information
Coventry and Warwickshire Hospital	Emily	Case	70	[4]	Hide information
Swanswell Street	Charles Henry	Claridge	20	[5]	Hide information
''     ''	Evelyn	Coates	20	[4]	Hide information
''     ''	Annie	Ewing	84	[3]	Hide information
''     ''	George	Ewing	87	[4]	Hide information
Coventry and Warwickshire Hospital	Robert	Foster	26	[5]	Hide information
Wright Street	John	Green	5	[4]	Hide information
Swanswell Street	Daniel	Harvey	25	[5]	Hide information
''     ''	Thomas	Lees	55	[5]	Hide information
''     ''	Harry	Litchfield	27	[4]	Hide information
''     ''	Richard	Mulhall	25	[4]	Hide information
''     ''	Kenneth Ernest	Webb	23	[7]	Hide information
Hartlepool Road	Mary Elizabeth	Wilkins	61	[3]	Hide information
''     ''	William	Wilkins	61	[4]	Hide information