Memorial Title
Osmaston - Board (Lost)
Summary
Derbyshire War Memorials: a description of a lost WW2 war memorial board commemorating air raid casualties at Osmaston, Derby.
Images
| No images are available. |
Locations
| Last known location: Not known. Nightingale Rd Osmaston-by-Derby |
Nearest postcode: DE24 8BF NGR: SK 36385 33570 (From online digital mapping.) (Map opens in new window.) |
Location details: Osmaston, now a suburb of Derby, was historically known as Osmaston-by-Derby. The exact location of the memorial is not known, but it was reported as a wooden board in Nightingale Rd so is likely to have been indoors, possibly in the Rolls-Royce aero engine factory, now demolished. |
Type
| Overall type: Board. |
Overall condition: Lost. |
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| Description: Said to have been a wooden board. No further details are known. Glossary |
Components:
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Inscription
| It is not known what the inscription said, or whether any names were recorded, however, the following are now known to be the names of the casualties: |
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| Arthur Bacon, aged 37 | Elizabeth Helen Franklin, aged 32 | Doreen Cecilia Jenkins, aged 15 |
| Arthur Frederick Base, aged 54 | George Henry Gratton, aged 62 | Ethel Esther Lawrence, aged 35 |
| Olive May Bates, aged 30 | Dora Greatorex, aged 21 | Cyril Leslie Lowe, aged 31 |
| 7648554 Private Thomas Lee Carlen RAOC, aged 22 | Francis Robert Grimmer, aged 51 | Doris Nield, aged 19 |
| Vera Mabel Doggrell, aged 23 | Sidney Higgins, aged 28 | James Peach, aged 45 |
| Dorothy Lena Farmer, aged 22 | John William Hill, aged 53 | Dennis Regan, aged 9 |
| Sylvia May Farmer, aged 2 | Charles Levi Horn, aged 55 | Joseph Taylor, aged 32 |
| Margaret Eileen Finan, aged 21 | Frederick Cecil Isaac, aged 49 | |
| Conflicts and people named: | |||
| Conflict | Second World War (1939-1945) |
Second World War Civilians (1939-1945) |
Totals |
| Action | German air raid on Rolls-Royce aero engine factory (27th July 1942) |
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| Number died | 1 | 22 | 23 |
| Number served and returned | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total names | 1 | 22 | 23 |
Administration
Local authorities:
From WW2: Derby County Borough Council (Derby Corporation)
From 1974: Derby District (later Borough and from 1977 City) Council and Derbyshire County Council.
From 1997: The unitary authority has been Derby City Council.
History
Unknown date: The memorial was made by J A F Lemmings, wood carver.
By 2006: The memorial was lost.
August, 2017: The memorial was researched by Roy Branson.
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