Reference
BorLCA1/11a
Title
'Civilian Deaths and Injuries' Feb. 1939 - June 1943
Letter from Director of Public Cleansing to Town Clerk - lists cemeteries, cost of 2,000 shrouds 31 July 1939
List of dead due to bombing made 7 Sept 1940 esp. Vauxhall Motors - letter of condolence to Next of Kin, names listed - from Mayor lists of those killed. 5 Sept. 1940
Date free text
1939-1943
Production date
From: 1939 To: 1943
Scope and Content
Letter from Clerk to Secretary of Luton and Dunstable Hospital. complaining re lack of information on bed states, transfers or death of patients. 7 Sept. 1940
Death as the result of Air Raid 28 Sept. 1940
15 Nov one Death, 4 casualties
Reply to circular re mortuaries (Luton estimated population 107,000) 4 Sept. 1941
Letter to Regional Commissioner complaining re increased light now permitted on motor vehicles.
Luton bombed at night by 'Strays', thinks attracted by traffic on roads esp. by light thrown up into the air by motors going up hills. 7Oct. 1941
Letter from Regional Commissioner need mortuary space for another 163 bodies, to bring it up to 321. 31 Oct. 1941
Letter Civilian War Dead Mortuary Service 8 June 1942
Mutual assistance within Beds. from Ministry of Health, 12 Queen Anne Tce.
Likelihood of retaliation as result of British raids, Cologne and Essen 6 May 1942
5 Dead, 18 Casualties as result of Air Raid 5 Sept. 1942
Offers of Mutual assistance re mortuary work from Hitchin and Watford UDC's, St. Albans and
Hereford Boroughs among others.
And corresp. 1941 - 1942 re Arthur Bourne deceased, who died fire fighting.
Language
English
Level of description
item