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The first Griffith Memorial Lecture indicates that Fred Griffith died on the night of 17 April 1941 — though the fourth lecture indicates that he died in his apartment in February 1941 — alongside friend and colleague William M. Scott amid an air raid during World War II's London Blitz.

A few weeks earlier Scott had become director of the laboratory, which, with the outbreak of war, had become Emergency Public Health Laboratory Service.

Both dated 3 May 1941, his obituary in The Lancet mentions the historical discovery briefly, and his obituary in British Medical Journal fails to mention it.