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Here is a list of the sources that we used to create this project.

Ancestry
Daily Mail Historical Archive
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Forces War Records
Mass Observation Archive
Times Digital Archive

Leeds Libraries, LP 355.45 L517, City of Leeds, 'After an Air Raid', 1941
Leeds Libraries, LQP 940.542, 'Alphabetical List of Air Raid Casualties in Leeds', 1941
Royal Voluntary Services Archive, WVRS/NR/R2/1938-MB/LDS/Nov
The National Archives, HO 198/182 'Raid Summary: Leeds', 14 March 1941
The National Archives, HO 203/6 Home Security, Intelligence Summaries, 14-15 March 1941
West Yorkshire Archives Service, LL 8/3/1 Civil Defence Emergency Committee, Special Report: Air Raid 14th-15th March', 24 March 1941
West Yorkshire Archives Service, LC/FIRE/1/1/8 Fire Report Log Books, 1941
West Yorkshire Archives Service, RDP 68/67/8 St Peter’s School Logbook, 1941
West Yorkshire Archives Service, WYL 1209/3/3 ‘Air Raid night of 14-15 March 1941’, 15 March 1941
Yorkshire Post

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