Canon Ainslie School, Ainslie Street
14 June 1943, 10:25am · Grimsby, Lincolnshire
View this record on the map →- Date
- 14 June 1943, 10:25am
- Record type
- Historic bombing site
- Bomb type
- parachute-mine
- Casualties
- 4
- Location
- Grimsby, Lincolnshire
- Position accuracy
- Confirmed site, street-derived point
What happened
Hours after the main raid, an unexploded butterfly bomb detonated at the school on the corner of Ainslie Street and Abbey Road, killing four air raid wardens working to clear the site.
Casualty note
Four wardens killed instantly when a butterfly bomb detonated during clearance work: Charles Heath, his son Walter Heath, George Wilson, and Harold Blundell.
Also worth knowing
Part of the wider Grimsby & Cleethorpes butterfly bomb raid of 13–14 June 1943 — see the area record for the full raid. Bomb type recorded as 'parachute-mine' to match the site's schema for the SD-2 butterfly bomb, an anti-personnel cluster munition rather than a conventional parachute mine; treat the categorisation as the closest available fit, not a literal match.