Lives of the First World War

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ID: 8833266

Reference: bmd_deaths

Title: England & Wales deaths 1837-2007 Transcription

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UPP: BMD/D/1915/3/AZ/000080/115

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 8833270

Name: Thanet Advertiser - Saturday 25 January 1919

Title: Daylight Raids

Description: article looking back at the war history of the Thanet area describes the attack of 13th September 1915 in which she was fataly injured.

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ID: 8833598

Name: Margate War Memorial WWI Civilians Roll of Honour 14th October 2010

Title: Margate War Memorial 1914-1918

Description: "Miss Kate C. Bonny Fatally injured by a bomb dropped in the first daylight raid on Thanet on 13th September 1915 when a German sea-plane dropped ten bombs. She was standing at the garden gate of her home at Brooklyn Lodge, Albion Road, Cliftonville in expectation of the arrival of her parents from London when the raid took place. She was aged 32 and died at Margate Cottage Hospital on 17th September 1915. (See also Miss A. E. Robbins [sic]) Interred at the Jewish Cemetery, Dumpton Park Road, Ramsgate (Her headstone bears the inscription: “Killed by a German bomb on the eve of the Day of Atonement”

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URL: http://www.margatecivicsociety.org.uk/Margate%20War%20Memorial%20WWI%20Civilians%20Roll%20of%20Honour.pdf
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Additional: "Miss Kate C. BonnyFatally injured by a bomb dropped in the first daylight raid on Thanet on 13th September 1915 when a German sea-planedropped ten bombs"

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ID: 8833604

Reference: 1891gbc

Title: 1891 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

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UPP: GBC/1891/0005880495

Additional: Kate C Bonny aged 12 in the 1891 Census residing at Brooklyn Lodge, Albion Road Margate

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ID: 8833607

Reference: 1881gbc

Title: 1881 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

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UPP: GBC/1881/0001793900

Additional: Kate C Bonny aged 3 in the 1881 Census. Parents Sacerdote and Clara are showing in the Household.

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ID: 8833620

Name: Glyn Thomas Originally posted for the Guess Where London group.

Title: Bevis Marks Memorial

Description: Under 1914 - 1918 Katherine C Bonny is the sixth name on the left.

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URL: https://www.flickr.com/photos/glynthomas/297507288
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Additional: Katherine is a formal form of Kate.

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ID: 8833628

Name: Ian Castle

Title: 13th September 1915 Kent

Description: From the end of the final paragraph " Splinters from the bomb struck Kate Bonny as she stood at the garden gate of “Brooklyn Lodge”; she died of her wounds four days later."

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URL: http://www.iancastlezeppelin.co.uk/13-sept-1915/4587635272
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Additional: " Splinters from the bomb struck Kate Bonny as she stood at the garden gate of “Brooklyn Lodge”; she died of her wounds four days later."

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ID: 8833631

Name: The Western Front Association

Title: 13 September 1915

Description: Final paragraph "Also fatally injured, Miss K.C.Bonny was standing at the garden gate of her home at Brooklyn Lodge, Albion Road, Cliftonville, in expectations of the arrival of her parents from London when the raid took place. She was aged 32 and died at Margate Cottage hospital on 17th September. She is interred at the Jewish Cemetery, Dumpton Park Road, Ramsgate. - See more at: http://www.westernfrontassociation.com/the-great-war/diary-of-the-great-war/diary-of-the-great-war-for-1915/5062-13-september-1915.html#sthash.cYGn4wG6.dpuf

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URL: http://www.westernfrontassociation.com/the-great-war/diary-of-the-great-war/diary-of-the-great-war-for-1915/5062-13-september-1915.html#sthash.cYGn4wG6.dpbs
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Additional: Also fatally injured, Miss K.C.Bonny was standing at the garden gate of her home at Brooklyn Lodge, Albion Road, Cliftonville, in expectations of the arrival of her parents from London when the raid took place. She was aged 32 and died at Margate Cottage hospital on 17th September. She is interred at the Jewish Cemetery, Dumpton Park Road, Ramsgate. - See more at: http://www.westernfrontassociation.com/the-great-war/diary-of-the-great-war/diary-of-the-great-war-for-1915/5062-13-september-1915.html#sthash.cYGn4wG6.dpuf

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ID: 8833637

Name: The siege of Kut 1916 posted January 5th 2016

Title: The Story of Ramsgate during the First World War

Description: Second Paragraph under " A Quiet Corner of Ramsgate" "The civilian who died was Kate Cleopatra Bonny who was killed on the Eve of the Day of Atonement 5676 on 17th September 1915 aged 32.

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URL: http://ramsgateremembers14-18.co.uk/?cat=11
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Additional: "The civilian who died was Kate Cleopatra Bonny who was killed on the Eve of the Day of Atonement 5676 on 17th September 1915 aged 32.

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ID: 8833640

Reference: bmd_births

Title: England & Wales births 1837-2006 Transcription

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UPP: BMD/B/1878/3/AZ/000058/129

Additional: The first names here are reversed: Cleopatra Kate Bonny born in Islington London in the third quarter of 1878.

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ID: 8835107

Name: Colarado Historic Newspaper Collection Herald Democrat, September 17, 1915

Title: Herald Democrat, September 17, 1915

Description: Under Day of Atonement " The initial service of.the Day of .Atonement is held In the evening: of the' 17th of September. The entire day of the 48th of September is devoted to it."

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URL: https://www.coloradohistoricnewspapers.org/cgi-bin/colorado?a=d&d=THD19150917-01.2.46
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Additional: Kate Cleopatra Bonny died on the 17/9/1915 and is remembered on the Bevis Marks London's War Memorial as well as at Ramsgate Jewish Cemetery. The Headstone bears the inscription: “Killed by a German bomb on the eve of the Day of Atonement."

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ID: 8888666

Title: Katherine C Bonny

Description: Bevis Marks Memorial

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