CHICHESTER HOME GUARD/REEVES GARAGE INCIDENT

[BARRIE]

On February 10th 1943 in North Street In Chichester, 16 year old Norman George Lawrence lost his life when a bomb destroyed Reeves Garage. Norman lived with his parents in Bognor, George and Anne, and is listed as being a member of the Home Guard. The bombing also took the lives of several other people including a young girl. I have found very little about the Lawrence family, and even less about Norman and his involvement with the Home Guard.  Can anybody add anything please?

[John]

This is the report in the local press on young Norman's funeral. The Find a Grave website gives his grave location as: Plot info: Ext 205 A(D)

Bognor Regis Observer - Saturday 20 February 1943

[John]

And his death notice in the same issue, although this contains two different spellings for the surname..

[BARRIE]

Thanks for that John, give's me more to go on with. I have learnt a little more, speaking to a mate from Chichester whos Grandad, working in a reserved occupation for the Electricity Board, who was also a close friend of the family killed in the incident, was called to the incident which seriously affected him for some time.
I will post more as I find it.