In South Shields (Harton) Cemetery is the Commonwealth War Grave, with  a private headstone, of civilian Robert Bohill who died 03/10/1941.

The headstone reads:

In loving memory of
our dear son
Robert Bohill
killed by enemy action
Oct. 3rd 1941 aged 29 years.

Also
Eliza Scott
Grandmother of the above
who died Sep. 6th 1914
aged 53 years.

Also
Henry Bohill
father of the above Robert
who died Dec. 17th 1949
aged 74 years

and Jane Elizabeth Bohill
wife of the above
who died Dec. 11th 1961
aged 82 years.

Robert was the son Henry and Elizabeth Bohill of 28 Park Avenue Cleadon Estate, South Shields.

Robert Bohill was born 4th eldest of six children on the 9th October 1912, in South Shields, to father Henry Bohill, born 19th May 1875, died 17th December 1949, and his wife Jane Elizabeth [nee Scott], born 5th May 1879, died 11th December 1961. They were married on the 9th August 1897 in South Shields.

The other children were: –

• Eliza Scott Bohill, born 12th May 1898, baptised 25th May 1898 at St. Hilda’s Church, South Shields. Her name was added to the nursing register on the 27th April 1945. Eliza Scott Bohill never married and died, aged 71, in 1969 in South Shields.
• William Scott Bohill, born 6th October 1901, baptised 20th October 1901, at St. Hildas Church, South Shields. He married Jennie Bellerby, born 18th February 1902, in 1929, in Sunderland. In 1939, William and Jennie Bohill were residing at 6 Hawthorne Avenue, South Shields, and William was a Motor Bus Driver. Also at the home were three redacted records Jennie Bohill died, 1977, in South Shields, William Scott Bohill, 49, Hawthorne Avenue, South Shields, died 4th April 1978.
• Janet Bohill, born 17th May 1904, died Jarrow 1986. In 1921, she was residing with her parents at 7 Cornwallis Street, South Shields. She married Robert Stanners, born 18th October 1911, died 1982, in 1937, in South Shields.
• Edward Curry Bohill, born 8th November 1919, died 2000. He enlisted in the [Royal] Northumberland Fusiliers. Army number 4276034, 326548, and was mentioned in the London Gazette on 8th September 1944. Was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant from the 5th August 1944, from an Officer cadet. Edward married Maud Soppitt, born 25th August 1920, in 1944, in South Shields.
• John Curry Bohill, born 1921; he died in 1922, in South Shields.

In 1939, Robert Bohill was residing at 28 Park Avenue, South Shields, and he was a plumber. Also, at the home were, Edward C. Bohill, Janet Stanners [nee Bohill], Henry Bohill, Jane E. Bohill, Eliza S. Bohill, and one redacted record. The father was a sea Stoker.

Robert was injured on the 2nd October at Tyne Dock and died at the General Hospital on the 3rd October 1941.

Casualties were:
Sixty-eight killed including thirty-four men, twenty-two women and twelve children
one hundred and seventeen seriously injured including sixty-seven men, thirty-seven women and thirteen children
ninety-one slightly injured including fifty-four men, thirty women and seven children.
Included in the above figures were one Air Raid Warden killed, two seriously injured and seven slightly injured
one Messenger seriously injured and one slightly injured
one Special Constable killed, one seriously injured and one slightly injured
one Fireman killed, three seriously injured and five slightly injured
two Firewatchers killed and one seriously injured.

About 2,000 people were rendered homeless, of whom 374 were accommodated in five Rest Centres. The Civil Defence Services were greatly helped by the demeanour of the inhabitants in this ordeal. It has been estimated that 240 dwelling-houses, shops and offices were destroyed at the time or had to be taken down later. Upwards of 2,000 suffered less heavily. Seven trolley and motor buses were more or less seriously damaged, but one of the Cleadon buses burnt in the Market Place was restored and used by the Transport Department for some years afterwards. This was the cost of South Shields’ ordeal.

Robert Bohill is remembered at Westoe in W108.08, page 13, and in the Civilian War dead for South Shields.