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- On 3 March 1943, 173 people, including 62 children, were killed in a crush while attempting to enter the shelter, in what is believed to be the largest loss of civilian life in the UK during the Second World War.
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On 3rd March 1943, an air-raid warning sounded and locals raced for cover at Bethnal Green tube station. Confusion and panic conspired to trap hundreds on the staircase entrance. In the crush that ensued, 173 were killed including 62 children with over 60 injured.
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The East End, with its industry and docks, had been a target for German bombers since the Luftwaffe2 had failed to establish air superiority in the Battle of BritainAbout links. Furthermore, the East End was seen as a barometer of British civilian morale. So, even though the BlitzAbout links had ended almost two years ago in May 1941, bombing raids...
Approximately 500 people were already in the shelter when the warning sirens sounded at 8.17pm. Since German bombing had switched tactics from slow, heavy aircraft, to lighter, faster bombers, people had less time to reach safe shelter. Bethnal Green residents knew this, and poured out of cinemas and off passing buses towards the station. An estima...
At 8.27pm the touch-paper was lit. A frightening roar went out as a nearby anti-aircraft battery fired its salvo of 60 rockets. The battery was new, with an unfamiliar sound. Apprehension turned to panic. As the crowd surged forward down the slippery steps a woman holding a small child fell near the bottom of the first staircase. A man tripped over...
Despite the best efforts of rescuers, 173 people: 27 men, 84 women and 62 children. A further 62 people were taken to hospital. It was reported that the woman who originally fell had survived, but her child had not. Fearful that news of such an unnecessary disaster would damage public morale, the British government ordered that both the location an...
As well as having a song written about it3, the disaster is commemorated with a plaque that can be found at the station's southeast entrance on the corner of Cambridge Heath Road and Roman RoadAbout links, above the step where the first women fell. It reads: 1Some sources put the figure at 178, but 173 is the figure given on a plaque at the station...
Learn about the deadliest civilian incident of World War Two in London, when 173 people died in a crush at a bomb shelter in 1943. Find out the context, the cause, the aftermath and the remembrance of this tragic event.
Sep 30, 2013 · Learn about the tragic accident that killed 173 people, including 62 children, at Bethnal Green tube station during a false air-raid warning. Find out how the government censored the reports, how the disaster could have been prevented and how it is remembered today.
Apr 1, 2016 · The Bethnal Green Tube Disaster of 1943 was the UK's largest single loss of civilian life during World War II. More than 170 people fleeing from an air raid were crushed to death when the...
Mar 3, 2013 · A service and a procession were held to commemorate the 173 people, including 62 children, who died in a crush at the station in 1943. The disaster was caused by a false air-raid alarm and a new type of anti-aircraft rocket.
The Independent reports on the tragic event of 1943, when 173 people died in a stampede at a closed tube station during an air raid. It also covers the long struggle for a proper memorial and the survivors' stories.
Mar 4, 2018 · 4 March 2018. The crush happened at the station's entrance. Survivors of the UK's worst civilian disaster of World War Two have attended a 75th anniversary memorial service. A crush during an air...
