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Blitz Victims List

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Robert Dempster

Key Facts

Occupation/Rank: ARP Warden

Date of Death: 16 April 1941

Place of Death: Heather Street

Age: 35

Robert lost his life during the Easter Tuesday Raid on Heather Street where forty people in total were killed.

He was the son of Mary Jane and Samuel Dempster.

Robert is buried in Carnmoney Public Cemetery.

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