Katie Maria Crawford

Katie died on 9th August 1915 at the age of 18.

Katie, known as Kate, was born at Pakefield on 24 April 1898, a daughter of Frederick Sidney and Jane Elizabeth Crawford of 18 Oaklands Terrace, Kessingland. 

Katie worked as a live-in kitchen maid for Arthur Stebbings who had a shop at 12 Lovewell Road, Kirkley. 

At 10.30 p.m. on Monday 9th August 1915 a German zeppelin bombed Lowestoft. One of the bombs fell on 12 Lovewell Road and Kate was killed. Her death certificate notes her cause of death as: 

'being crushed and suffocated as the result of a collapse of a house caused by the explosion of a shell or bomb discharged from a hostile enemy aircraft.'

Katie was buried at Saint Edmunds Churchyard, Kessingland, on 16 August 1915.

(With thanks to Ivan Bunn/Bob Collis for providing this information)