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Originally Posted by Phoenix
The thing about the deaths, Maggie, is that virtually nobody died in their houses. They must have had a warning and gone to shelters. Most of those in Coburg Street had headed for Fratton School and that took a direct hit. Googling, I found this, a Gazeteer of Portsmouth, which looks as if it was uploaded this Spring: https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/wp-con...aedia-2011.pdf
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First hand account of Portsmouth bombings one 10 Jan 1941 in the first link and another in the second link mention of Fratton Road but the third link says it was Arundel Street School that took a direct hit.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peo...a2716391.shtml
https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peo...a2636318.shtml
http://www.liblog.port.ac.uk/blog/2016/01/14639/