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Mrs ADA EMMA BROWN - Miss VERA BROWN Age 37,14 mnths Master DONALD FRANCIS FREEBURY
Age 15 Mrs MARY ANN ELIZABETH GRATWICK Age 62 Mr ALBERT EDWARD RANN Age 70 Mr ERNEST EDWARD & EMMA ELIZABETH SEABROOK Age 64,
66 All died 20.9.1941
On the late evening of Saturday, 20th September 1941. Air-raid sirens sounded once again as enemy aircraft approached the area. All to shortly
afterwards the bombers were overhead and the raid started, high explosive and incendiary bombs were dropped, Portsmouth and Gosport were again on the receiving end of the enemy attentions.
Leesland Road, Gosport, runs parallel to the Gosport to Fareham railway line. The north side of the houses backing on to the rail-lines, it may
be that aircraft which dropped its bombs intended the railway as its target, however the bombs hit some of the houses along the road.
At No. 46 Lees land Road, Mrs ADA EMMA BROWN, (37), a widow who had remarried, the wife of Leslie Harold, and children VERA (14 months) &
DONALD FRANCIS IS FREEBURY (15), were ki1led outright, the house completely collapsed on them.
At No. 79, Mrs MARY ANN ELIZABETH GRATWICK, (62), a widow, and her next door neighbour at No. 81, Mr ALBERT EDWARD RANN (70), formerly of the
Roval Marines and now retired, were killed when their houses were ripped apart by an exploding bomb.
At No. 85, Mr ERNEST EDWARD SEABROOK (64) and his wife EMMA ELIZABETH; (66) were also killed when their home was totally destroyed in an
instant, they could not have known much about it.
All the above were buried at Ann’s Hill Cemetery, Gosport, the details of which follow; Mrs ADA EMMA BROWN her daughter Vera And son
Donald Francis Freebury, were buried on Wednesday, 24th September 1941, and are laid t6 rest, Plot 97, Space 51, and are commemorated by a Civilian War Grave headstone.
Mrs Mary Ann Elizabeth Gratwick and Mr Ernest Edward Seabrook and his wife Emma Elizabeth, were also buried on Wednesday 24th September 1941,
and are laid to rest, Plot 34, Space 46, and Plot 26, Space 54 respectively. A Civilian War Grave headstone commemorates Mrs Gratwick’s final resting-place, and a Family Memorial commemorates Mr
and Mrs Seabrook.
Mr Albert Edward Rann was buried on Thursday 25th September 1941, and is laid to rest, Plot 26,Space 55 beside his neighbours Mr and Mrs
Seabrook, and is commemorated by a Civilian War Grave headstone.
Mr ALBERT COSHAM BUDD Formerly of the Royal Marine Light Infantry, HMS Bulwark. Age 40 Died 15.12.1920
Mr ALBERT COSHAM BUDD, formerly of the Royal Marine Light Infantry. Served aboard His Majesties Ship, ‘Bulwark’. This ship was badly
damaged during a naval engagement during World War One. Marine BUDD was seriously wounded in the action, as a result of which he was hospitalised when the ship reached Portsmouth. Owing to the severe
nature of his wounds, Marine Budd was invalided out of the R.M.’s. Continual surgery over the war years and after, sapped his strength, finally he passed away on 15th December 1920. Mr ALFRED
COSHAM BUDD, was laid to rest, Plot 51 Space 34, and is commemorated by a Family Memorial.
Unteroffizer FRITZ BUDIG Unteroffizer
German Air Force Age 26 Born 2.4.1914 Died 12.8.1940
Unteroffizer FRITZ BUDIG, born 2nd April 1914, was serving with 2/ZG2 of the German Luftwaffe, who were tasked with a
bombing mission of Portsmouth Dockyard on Monday 12th August 1940, it was just after midday that the escorting formation split up as their fighter escort circled the Nab Tower, one section attacked
Ventnor Radar Station, destroying all the surface buildings, putting the station out of action for several days. Budig's section continued their run-in towards the Dockyard and other military bases
in Gosport, causing large scale damage and casualties, they were unaware that their presence had been detected by radar, and that fighters were hurtling towards them.
Having bombed the targets the aircraft turned homewards, straight into the intercepting fighters, immediately
the skies above the Solent were turned into a deadly battlefield, during the next few minutes a heavy casualty rate was inflicted on both raiders and defending aircraft, as the battle continued
southwards. Unteroffizer Fritz Budig's Me 110D/O (3316) coded 3M+MK with Staffel Kapitan Kulbel at the controls, twisted and turned in a vain attempt to avoid the swarming British fighters, there was to be no escape, the aircraft was shot down into the sea at Spithead, Kulbel and Budig were killed, Uffz Budig's body was recovered from the sea by an RAF Launch.
Unteroffizer Fritz Budig G.A.F., is buried at AHC, plot 188 grave 32, commemorated by a CWG headstone.
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