Audrey Kathleen Darvell was the daughter of George Darvell (1899-1962) and Mabel Darvell née Muir (1899-1940). Her birth was registered in the 3rd quarter of 1924 in the Southwark registration district.
Electoral registers from 1929 show her parents registered at 132A Union Street, London, SE1 and this address was confirmed in the 1939 England and Wales Register, although their daughter did not appear on this register. Her father was a heating and ventilator sheet metal worker.
She died, aged 16 years, on 10 September 1940, as a result of enemy action when a German bomb fell on the Ewer Street air raid shelter. Amongst the others killed were her mother and her grand-aunt Anna Maria Woods (1889-1940). She was buried in the City of London Cemetery and Crematorium, Aldersbrook Road, London, E12 5DQ.
Probate records confirm that her address was 132 Union Street, Southwark, and that when probate was granted on 27 May 1941 to her father, her effects totalled £72-5s-9d.
Her name is recorded in The Civilian War Dead Roll of Honour 1939-1945 that is kept just outside the entrance to St George's Chapel at the west end of Westminster Abbey. In this she is shown as living at 130A Union Street Flats, Union Street, Southwark, as does the Commonwealth War Graves Commission's website.
Credit for this entry to: Andrew Behan.
