Harold George Rowing Parker

A Civilian, Harold died on 1st of August 1940 aged 32.

Harold was born at Lowestoft in 1908, a son of George Edgar Rowing and Minnie Lilian Rowing Parker. In 1911 his family lived at 19 May Road and by 1921 their home was at Saint Marguerite, Saint Margaret’s Road. 

On 28 September 1935 Harold married Nellie Searby at Saint Margaret’s Church. Harold was an engineer’s draughtsman, living at 207 Saint Margaret’s Road, and Nellie was a typist, living at 1 Battery Green Terrace, Battery Green Road. By 1939 they were living at Glencoe, 18 Marlborough Road, Oulton Broad, and Harold was an engineer’s draughtsman.

Harold worked for Boulton and Paul at Norwich. At 3.15 p.m. on 1 August 1940 a single German aircraft attacked the Boulton and Paul Riverside Works at Norwich. The aircraft dropped bombs and machine-gunned the streets. Nine people, including Harold, were killed in the attack.