Eileen Harriet Bunn

A Civilian, Eileen died on 17th of May 1941 at the age of 19. 

Eileen was born on the 4th May 1922, a daughter of Frank Sidney and Violet Bunn of 1 Vigilant Cottages Whapload Road Lowestoft. 

She died at 151 Queens Road, Nuneaton.

The 1939 Register shows that Eileen worked as a factory hand at a wire and cable factory in Lowestoft and subsequently she went to work at Nuneaton, Warwickshire. 

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. The single most devastating incident in that raid was when a bomb destroyed Merrick's Shop, on Queens Road (opposite Marlborough Road). The Commonwealth War Graves Commission records that Eileen died at 151 Queens Road it is thought that as only one bomb is recorded as having fallen on Queens Road, then Eileen must have been killed by the blast that destroyed Merrick's Shop. (See the Nuneaton and North Warwickshire Family History Society Journal July 2011 at 2011_07_Jul.pdf (nanwfhs.org.uk)

Also see details of Iris Spurgeon, from Lowestoft, who also died at 151 Queens Road, Nuneaton, on that fateful night. 

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