World War Two

WW2 shouldn't have directly impacted upon such a quite village except that it was on the opposite shore of the estuary where a large oil storage depot and a Naval dockyard. These were frequent targets of the Luftwaffe. On June 11 1941, a mis-aimed bomb made a direct hit on no. 45 Church Road and killed all four people inside. Those killed were: Mrs Margaret Evans aged 90, Miss Elvie Evans, her daughter, aged 46, Mrs Muriel Griffiths daughter of Mrs Margaret Evans and wife of Mr George Griffiths, aged 44 and the daughter of Mr & Mrs George Griffiths, Miss Margaret Griffiths, age 17.

As far as I am aware these are the only people killed in, or from, Hazelbeach during World War Two.

One of the victims, Miss Margaret Evans