MERRYLEES Audrey Civilian Single Female Child Killed by Bomb Hit Enemy Action Air Raid 18/7/1941 aged 8 years found at 12.45 pm at Estcourt St. identified by grandfather G Merrylees 52 – 19th Avenue Hull authorised to remove body Eastern Cemetery Mortuary Hull – Buried Thursday 24/7/1914 at 1.30 pm Eastern cemetery burial number 2877 grave 18 compt 170 Preston Road Hull – Undertaker F.W. Wright of Hull - Daughter of George & Violet Ida Merrylees of 8 Oakley Ave. Escourt St. Hull. In Memory of Those Citizens Killed In Enemy Air Raids Over This City 1939 - 1945 Northern Cemetery Chanterlands Avenue Hull HHC Casualty Reports C TYC/2 - HHC Index Card C TYD/2/692 - HHC Mortuary File C TYD/3/1478 - 17th/Friday, 18th July 1941 Thursday Luftflotte 3 operations map shows that one hundred and eight aircraft attacked targets in Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, East Anglia and Buckinghamshire. They dropped 173.9 tons of HE and 6,194 IBs, these attacks lasted until 03.31. The map shows that the main weight of the bombing that night was directed at Hull. 01.20.. Hull.. A heavy raid concentrated on east Hull and Victoria Docks. The bombs dropped:- Four IB clusters, ninety-two 50kg HEs, fifty-five 250kg HEs, twenty-one 500kg HEs, four 1000kg HEs and three GMs. About thirty aircraft attacked the city and caused a considerable amount of damage to business and residential property. 140 people were killed and 108 seriously injured. Direct hits were made on Rank's flour mill, East Hull gas undertaking, Messrs. Reckitt's factory, Franklin Street shelter, Holderness Road, the General Post Office, Crowle Street police station and the YPI George Street, altogether more than 200 industrial buildings were hit. Approximately 7,000 houses received damage of a more serious nature than broken windows, 1,500 made uninhabitable. HEs fell in Mulgrave Street, an industrial area, thickly populated. Factories were hit, shelters demolished, 30 people killed, 130 injured, and more than 800 rendered homeless. In Franklin Street, Holderness Road, a shelter received a direct hit, a wardens' post was moved several feet by the force of the explosion, a cinema and a bank destroyed. Public Alert (Hull Warning Dist): 01.18, All Clear: 04.07