Whitehall Cinema bombing

On 9 July 1943, 108 people lost their lives when the Whitehall Cinema was bombed in London Road, East Grinstead with another 235 people injured.

There is a communal grave in Mount Noddy Cemetery (bottom of Section 4C) where 22 casualties are buried, see link below. The burial location along with the casualty names are shown below. There are also names along with locations shown for casualties that had individual burials.

Maps

• Map of Mount Noddy Cemetery Whitehall Cinema victims
• Guide to Communal Grave Tablets

External links

• Find War Dead | Search Results | CWGC
• Bombing of the Whitehall Cinema (spartacus-educational.com)
• Flower beds to remember victims of Whitehall bombing – East Grinstead Town Council
• An eye-witness remembers the bombing of the Whitehall cinema – East Grinstead Town Council
• Whitehall Building, London Road – Visit East Grinstead
• Felbridge & District History Group Wartime memories
• Wartime West Sussex 1939 – 1945
• Sainsbury Archive – Bomb Damage at East Grinstead