FUNERAL THAT NO ONE FORGOT

THE funeral for the victims was something nobody ever forgot.

A programme was handed out to guests reading “a tribute to our fellow villagers who fell victim to the murderous fury of Nazi warplanes on the night and morning of April 29/30th, 1941.

■ – A miner of 54 Treharne Street, Cwmparc. Aged

64.

■ – A widow of 11 Treharne Street, Cwmparc. Aged

50.

■ – A ledger clerk of 12 Treharne Street, Cwmparc. Aged 24.

■ – Wife of Arthur Williams, of 10 Treharne Street, Cwmparc. Aged 22.

■ – A miner of 14 Treharne Street, Cwmparc. Aged 59.

■ – A miner of 52 Treharne Street, Cwmparc. Aged

59.

■ – A miner of 55 Treharne Street, Cwmparc. Aged 53.

■ – A miner of 53 Parc Road, Cwmparc. Aged 32.

■ – A miner of 52 Treharne Street, Cwmparc. Aged

52.

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– Wife of John Coughlin, of 96 Parc Road, Cwmparc. Aged 47.

■ – A miner of 52 Treharne Street, Cwmparc. No age given.

■ – A miner of 1 Parc Terrace, Cwmparc. Aged 53.

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– Widow of John James Pearce, of 10 Treharne Street, Cwmparc. Aged 48.

■ – A miner of 10 Treharne Street, Cwmparc. Aged

24.

■ – A widow of 13 Treharne Street, Cwmparc. Aged

58.

■ – Wife of Charles Ferguson of 51 Treharne Street, Cwmparc. Aged 45.

■ – Wife of David Richard Jones, of 52 Treharne Street, Cwmparc. Aged 51.

■ – Son of Thomas Williams, of 14 Treharne Street, Cwmparc. Aged 10.

■ – Son of Thomas Williams, of 10 Treharne Street, Cwmparc. Aged 18 months.

■ – Son of William Selwyn Bonner, of 54 Chestnut Grove, New Malden, Surrey. Died in 13 Treharne Street, Cwmparc. Aged six.

■ – Daughter of Alfred Jameson, of Manor Park, Essex. Died in 11 Treharne Street, Cwmparc. Aged eight.

■ – Son of Alfred Jameson, of 33 Alverstone Road, Manor Park, Essex. Died in 14 Treharne Street, Cwmparc. Aged 13.

■ – Son of Alfred Jameson, of 33 Alverstone Road, Manor Park, Essex. Died in 14 Treharne Street, Cwmparc. Aged 11.

■ – Wife of Stanley Jones, of 7 Rees Street, Treorchy. Died in Treharne Street, Cwmparc. No age given.

■ – An apprentice surveyor of 79 Regent Street, Treorchy. Died in Treharne Street. No age given.

■ – no age given.

■ – no age given.

David Middleton Jones Annie Mary Williams Sarah Margaret Jones Cissie Williams Tom Williams William David Evans Charles Williams Clifford Stanley Higgs David Thomas Pierce Margaret Elizabeth Coughlin Tom Hughes David John Jones Margaret Hannah Pearce Robert Emlyn Pearce Morfydd A Stuckey Margaret Ferguson Laura Pearce Jones Gethin Williams John D Williams John Derrek Bonner Joan Jameson George Jameson Arthur Jameson Elizabeth Ann Jones William Ivor Wright George Davies George Watkins