Norman was the son of the late H. Arnold and Mrs. M. Arnold, and lived in Crawley Down district of London. On the afternoon of Friday, July 9, 1943, then 14-year-old Norman was at the Whitehall Cinema in East Grinsted, watching a Hopalong Cassidy movie to a packed house. At 5:17 PM, the air raid sirens sounded, warning of a German bombing raid. A wave of German bombers then struck the town, leveling the theater with one bomb, followed by a second. 108 people, mostly children, were killed by the bombing. Another 235 people were seriously injured. There is a monument to the 108 souls that perished that day at the St. Swithun Churchyard.
Norman was the son of the late H. Arnold and Mrs. M. Arnold, and lived in Crawley Down district of London. On the afternoon of Friday, July 9, 1943, then 14-year-old Norman was at the Whitehall Cinema in East Grinsted, watching a Hopalong Cassidy movie to a packed house. At 5:17 PM, the air raid sirens sounded, warning of a German bombing raid. A wave of German bombers then struck the town, leveling the theater with one bomb, followed by a second. 108 people, mostly children, were killed by the bombing. Another 235 people were seriously injured. There is a monument to the 108 souls that perished that day at the St. Swithun Churchyard.
Gravesite Details
This is a monument only - unsure of his actual final resting place, if there is one.
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