Alexander Lionel Grice (1902 - 1941)

Alexander Grice was an Air Raid Warden on duty in Sandy Lane.  He was killed by a bomb, probably jettisoned by an enemy plane passing over from the raid on Manchester that night, the fourth largest raid on Manchester during WW2.  He died on the 9th January 1941 just as he was entering an Air Raid Shelter on Sandy Lane that was next to a field known as the 'Mollycroft'.  He was 38 years old.

His gravestone states he "was killed at his post by enemy action on the 9th January 1941" .

Lionel was the son of Philip and Madeline Hazelhurst Grice, of Fedw Cottage, Carrog, North Wales; husband of Norah Grice, Burford Lane .