Muriel May Mullender

A Civilian, Muriel died on 19th of December 1944 aged 30. 

Muriel was born at Lowestoft on 9 August 1914, a daughter of Charles Daniel and Alice Maud Mullender. Muriel’s family lived at 17 Pakefield Street and by 1921 were living at 34 Morton Road which was their home in 1939 when Muriel worked as a beatster. Later her mother lived at 188 Kimberley Road.

In 1944 Muriel was working at the Hoffman Works, Chelmsford, Essex. On 19 December 1944 a V-2 Rocket hit the works killing 39 and injuring 148, including Muriel. Muriel died later that day at the Chelmsford and Essex Hospital.

Muriel’s father, Charles, and her uncle, Francis, both died in the loss of the trawler Fleurette in 1917.