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Penryn wartime bombing victims remembered

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A service to remember those who died in a wartime bombing in Penryn will take place on Saturday. It will be the third year that the event takes place at the Memorial Gardens on Quay Hill. The first was to mark the 70th anniversary of the bombing which killed 18 people and destroyed 23 homes, shops, the church institute, which was used as the Royal British Legion headquarters and a paper mill. The service will be at 11am. It was a chance find that led to the first moving service to remember those that died at the site. Among those attending in 2011 was survivor Ivor Pascoe of Mabe, who lost his mother, two sisters and two nephews in the explosion, along with a lodger. Then 18, he spent more than four hours under rubble while rescuers worked to reach him at Quay Hill. He said: "I was in bed on the third floor and my father came in and said everyone was in the cellar shelter and we had to go down there. "I never had the chance to even get out of bed. I never heard the planes, just a swishing noise and the next minute I thought I was in a dream. "When I came to, I went to scratch and couldn't move." He and his father William, who both had cuts and bruises, were dug out from the floor of the cellar. The memorial gardens were created as a lasting tribute to the bombing. "I often go to the gardens on my own," said Mr Pascoe, who joined the Navy in late 1941. "It is nice that it has finally been recognised." Chas Wenmoth, of the Royal British Legion, organised the memorial after a chance discovery of the date of the incident. "I was cleaning the crosses from the last Remembrance service and noticed the date. It had never been marked before." One of the victims was Florence Hale, who was babysitting at the time. Her husband Harry was killed later in the war, during service off America and his name was also added to the memorial. The names of the 18 victims were read out and a cross laid for each one. Mr Wenmoth said: "These names in particular have special meaning. Richard Ralph and his wife and little girl died and he was the secretary of the legion. I find it really difficult that he served in the First World War and came home to Penryn and lost his life." The 18 that died were David Lander Boxhall, 4, Florence Annie Burleigh, 40, Florence Ivy Hale, 27, Louise Opie, 63, Gladys Pascoe, 33, Mary Ellen Pascoe, 64, Mary Ellen Pascoe, 35, Percy Pascoe, 4, Ronald Pascoe, 2, RC Pearce, Phillipa Pengelly, 41, Ethel Ralph, 37, Melvin Elise Ralph, 13, Richard Ralph, 42, John Rickard Rapson, 78, John Charles Tyler, 41, and Marjorie Lovisa Tyler, 35.

Penryn wartime bombing victims remembered


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