August 6th Nazi Bombs Bring Death to Cornwall
     

 

On a sunny evening in 1942, three Nazi air raids occurred in Truro, killing twelve people in the city, injuring sixty-five and destroying one hundred homes (pictured left).

The main targets were Truro Railway Station which was also machine-gunned and the Royal Infirmary ‘The City’ Hospital where ten were killed, including one young patient, Margaret Mortimore.  Her parents, Percy Arnold Mortimore and Mabel Louise Mortimore, also died in the bombing.

One railway employee, Harold Percival Williams and, Alfred Edward Penticost, a member of the Home Guard were killed in the same raid.

After attacking Truro, the bombers machine-gunned several farms in Probus and Tregony and attacked St Breward on Bodmin Moor and Fowey.  There were injuries and much damage but no deaths. 

The following day, two German, Focke-Wulf Fw 190, aircraft bombed the town and also attacked with cannon fire and machine guns killing nine and injuring eighteen residents. 

Eight of the nine who died were from one family, the Sargents, who had assembled for a family reunion.

 



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