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Raid dated 30/1/41 - Newark Advertiser report titled : Daylight Raid on North Midlands Town Two Fatal Casualties When Plane Swooped From Cloud. - After 16 months at war , a North Midlands town suffered its first direct casualties through enemy action on Thursday afternoon when a single Nazi raider swooped through low-laying cloud and dropped several high explosive bombs. The exact number is believed to have been 14 , two of them considerably heavier calibre than the others. As a result Anthony Thompson a 16 year old boy was killed. Working close at hand at the time was Mr J N Saxby. Flying shrapnel inflicted on him wounds from which he later died in hospital.


ARP Report : 12 bombs dropped , 10 landing in fields west of River Devon with little damage. 2 bombs caused damage to factories , shops and houses in the vicinity.



As a side bar to this Joseph Norman Saxby bother was killed in 1940. William : Sapper 2002239 11/7/40 aged 20 Royal Engineers Grave 3188. MELBOURNE CEMETERY Son of Harry and Amy Saxby, foster-son of Charles Edward and Hannah Mary Saxby, of Newark Nottinghamshire. CWWGC On 11 July 1940 nine Royal Engineer Sappers training on the railway in Melbourne were killed by a German bomb dropped on their billet in Church Street, Melbourne Derbyshire. at 8am. Eight of them are buried in Melbourne Cemetery. Single He111 of II./KG53 tasked to bomb a target near Burton on Trent that morning the most probable cause. His older brother was also killed later :
SAXBY, Private, Charles E, 4858673. 1st Bn. Leicestershire Regiment. 31st December 1941. Age 22. Son of Charles Edward and Hannah Mary Saxby, of Farndon Ferry, Nottinghamshire.
Died during Battle of Kampar Malaya.