Lilian Grimmer was serving as a private in the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) on the morning of May 11, 1943, when their headquarters in Great Yarmouth was bombed by enemy fighter planes.

Ms Grimmer, who was born in Cobholm, was only 18 at the time of the atrocity which was the biggest single loss of British army women during the conflict.

She is said to have swapped duties that fateful day.

New plans could now see her name engraved on a war memorial in Great Yarmouth.

The ATS hostel on North Drive in Great Yarmouth after the raid on May 11, 1943. (Image: WRAC Association) Michaela Smith-Moore, who works for Great Yarmouth Borough Council, has applied for planning permission to add Miss Grimmer's name to the memorial in St George's Park.

In the application, she says: "At present, Lillian........

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