Leah Mary Felgate was born on 20 April 1937 the younger child of Henry Felgate (1910-1980) and Alice Rachel Felgate née Cross (1912-1998). Her birth was registered in the 2nd quarter of 1937 in the Finsbury Registration District, London.
In the England and Wales Register that was compiled on 29 September 1939 she was shown as under school age and living with her mother and elder brother, Benjamin Felgate (1934-2001), at Red Barn Farm, Wicken, Newmarket, Cambridgeshire, whilst her father was listed as a retail fruiterer at 13 Fountain Street, Bethnal Green, London.
Her father was serving in the Royal Navy as an Able Seaman when his daughter was injured by a German bomb that fell on the Columbia Market air raid shelter on the night of 7th/8th September 1940. She died on 8 September 1940 at Bethnal Green Hospital, Cambridge Heath Road, Bethnal Green and her in West Ham Jewish Cemetery, Buckingham Road, Forest Gate, London, E15. Her death was registered, as aged 3 years, in the 3rd quarter of 1940 in the Bethnal Green Registration District.
She is shown as 'FELGATE Leah 3' on the Columbia Market air raid shelter memorial in the Rose Garden, Old Market Square, Ravenscroft Park, London, E2.
She is also commemorated on the , on the and in that is kept just outside the entrance to St George's Chapel at the west end of Westminster Abbey.
Credit for this entry to: Andrew Behan.
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