Incident 10 - 28/12/39 Dagenham

Air Raid Warden Frederick William Kiff, 38, died at the warden’s post at the junction of Neville Road and Seabrook Road, Dagenham.
No further information about the incident is given by CWGC and I have not been able to find any further details. If anybody can help, please get in touch.
I believe that the eligibility criteria for the CWGC register include any death while on duty in a civil defence role, even if this was not as a result of a bombing, etc.

Frederick Kiff was the father of the artist, Ken Kiff, who's pictures can be found via a Goodgle search, according to this website:

http://www.kiff.net/kiff_1name/newsletters_1x/nl12/k1news12.html

“It has long been wondered where Ken Kiff, the artist, now Associate Artist at the National Gallery, fits on the Kiff family tree and efforts are being made to pin him down. The results of the latest search have given us the following information. Kenneth G. Kiff was born in 1935 in Dagenham. He was the younger brother of Frederick Kiff born 1925. Their parents were Frederick W. Kiff and Miss Fawcett, who married in London Colney in 1925. Frederick W was a woodworker and later joined the Air Raid Patrol. Frederick W died in 1939, when Ken was four years old.”

Incident 9 - 20/12/39 Gosforth

AFS fireman Charles Rutherford, 45, died at Fisher Lane, Gosforth.  From modern maps, Fisher Lane appears to be north of the main urban area and runs from the A1 to Cramlington
No further information about the incident is given by CWGC and I have not been able to find any further details. If anybody can help, please get in touch.
I believe that the eligibility criteria for the CWGC register include any death while on duty in a civil defence role, even if this was not as a result of a bombing, etc.

Incident 8 - 04/12/39 Clapham

Fireman Arthur Henry McCauley, 29, was injured at Kings Avenue, Clapham, and died the same day at St James’s Hospital.  He is buried at Battersea Rise Cemetry.
No further information about the incident is given by CWGC and I have not been able to find any further details. If anybody can help, please get in touch.
I believe that the eligibility criteria for the CWGC register include any death while on duty in a civil defence role, even if this was not as a result of a bombing, etc.

Incident 7 - 18/11/39 RNS Simon Bolivar

From this website:

http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?1865

"On November 18th, 1939, the Dutch liner Simon Bolivar (Capt. H. Voorspuiy), was on a voyage from Holland to Paramaribo [in Surinam], when she struck a mine, off Harwich. The liner carried 400 passengers and crew. The explosion was very violent and many people on the deck were killed, Capt. Voorspuiy was mortally wounded and died. The Simon Bolivar´s masts were blown down and she began to settle by the stern. The ship´s radio was damaged by the explosion and the S.O.S. could not be sent out. Nevertheless, other vessels were quickly on the spot. About 15 minutes after the first explosion, there was a second explosion that badly damaged some of the remaining lifeboats. According to the ship´s officers, the vessel had struck two mines, one on each side of the ship. S/S Simon Bolivar finally sank with the loss of 84 lives.”

CWGC records the death of one UK civilian, Mary Edith Grace, aged 58.

Incident 6 - 17/11/39 SS Sirdhana

This website:

http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?105177

records the following information:
" The steamship Sirdhana SS, Capt. P. Fairbairn, was leaving Singapore harbour on Monday, November 13th, 1939, with a large number of passengers on board, of whom 137 were Chinese deportees, when she struck a mine some three miles offshore and sank in 20 minutes. Twenty Asiatic deck passengers were killed."

CWGC records 2 deaths, the son and daughter of Assistant Warder Kaurat Singh.

Incident 5 - 09/11/39 Bootle

Robert Ray, an AFS fireman, died at North Langton Dock in Bootle. No further information about the incident is given by CWGC and I have not been able to find any further details. If anybody can help, please get in touch.
I believe that the eligibility criteria for the CWGC register include any death while on duty in a civil defence role, even if this was not as a result of a bombing, etc.

Incident 4 - 17/10/39 SS Yorkshire

CWGC lists 18 civilians as having lost their lives when the SS Yorkshire was sunk by a torpedo from a U-boat in the Bay of Biscay