Person    | Female  Born 25/9/1899  Died 1/8/1941

Alice Yates

Categories: Tragedy

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.

Alice Yates

Civilian killed in the crash of Hampden bomber P4399.

Our colleague Andrew Behan has kindly researched this woman: Alice Yates was born on 25 September 1899, the daughter of Edward Thomas Yates and Elizabeth Harriett Yates née Combes. Her father was a Stationary Engine Driver. Electoral registers from 1937 show the family living at 69 East Hill, Dartford, Kent. On the 1939 Register she was shown as a Canteen Hand.

On the night of Wednesday, 30 July 1941 a Handley Page Hampden Bomber, serial number P4399, took off from RAF Luffenham in Rutland at 23.06 hours on a night bombing raid to Cologne, Germany. On its return it flew into an electrical storm and crashed onto houses at 65-69 East Hill, Dartford, Kent, killing three RAF personnel on the aircraft and two civilians on the ground. Alice Yates was injured and died on 1 August 1941 at the County Hospital, Dartford and was buried in the Watling Street Cemetery, Dartford. Probate records show that she was a spinster and administration was granted to her father, Edward Thomas Yates. Her estate totalled £245-7s-10d.

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk

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