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Person    | Male  Born 1920  Died 18/9/1940

Reuben Norman

Categories: Emergency Services

War dead non-military, WW2 i

Commemorated on a memorial as being a civilian who was killed in WW2. Includes mercantile marines and emergency services personnel.

Reuben Norman

Member of the ARP/Civil Defence Services - auxiliary ambulance driver.

Andrew Behan has kindly provided this research: Reuben Norman was born in 1920. He married his wife, Frances, and they had one daughter. They lived at 70 Greenwood Road, Dalston. 

He was a driver in the London Auxiliary Ambulance Service and died, aged 20 years, on 18 September 1940 when a high explosive bomb fell on Saunders Ness Road School, Isle of Dogs, London, E.14, that was being used as Auxiliary Fire Service Sub Station No.35U. He was buried in Plot A, Row 20, Grave 7, in the Rainham Jewish Cemetery, 416 Upminster Road North, Rainham, RM13 9SB. He is also commemorated in the Civilian War Dead Roll of Honour, located near St. George's Chapel in Westminster Abbey.

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Cubitt Town School air raid

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