 There were occasional tip and run raids and in 1944 two V1 flying bombs in mid-July were the last enemy ordnance to fall in the city.Among the victims of the bombing was Edgar L. Perry, who had worked as a coal trimmer on board the RMS "Titanic" in 1912.Perry, who had survived the sinking, perished along with his wife on 23 November 1940 as they sought shelter from the bombing.