Gerard Colin Jones

A Civilian, Gerard died on 17th of May 1941 at the age of 6. 

Gerard was born at Lowestoft on 8th March 1935, a son of Sidney Robert and Viola Gladys Jones.

In 1939 his family lived at Elsie Dene, Higher Drive, Lowestoft. During the war his family moved to Nuneaton. 

During the night of 16-17 May 1941 Nuneaton was very heavily bombed with both incendiary and high explosive bombs and 131 people were killed. One high explosive bomb destroyed numbers 12, 14 and 16 Ventnor Street. Gerard, his mother, and two brothers, were at number 14 when the bomb hit and they were all killed. (See the Nuneaton and North Warwickshire Family History Society Journal July 2011 at 2011_07_Jul.pdf (nanwfhs.org.uk)

A photo of the devastation at Ventnor Street is at Collections News: New Donations | Behind the Scenes at Nuneaton Museum (wordpress.com)

His father Sidney returned to Lowestoft and lived at 165 Saint Peters Street Lowestoft Suffolk. He died in 1991. 

Two of Gerard's uncles, Alonzo and Frederick Corbin, died in the First World War.