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Allum Green

Allum Green
Allum Green House
Allum Green is located in Hampshire
Allum Green
Allum Green
Location within Hampshire
OS grid referenceSU279071
Civil parish
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townLyndhurst
Postcode districtSO43
Dialling code023
PoliceHampshire and Isle of Wight
FireHampshire and Isle of Wight
AmbulanceSouth Central
UK Parliament
List of places
UK
England
Hampshire
50°51′43″N 1°36′18″W / 50.8619°N 1.6049°W / 50.8619; -1.6049

Allum Green is a hamlet southwest of Lyndhurst, Hampshire, England.

During the night of 5/6 September 1940 it was the scene of a Luftwaffe bombing raid, which resulted in the deaths of four British Army soldiers of the RAOC (Royal Army Ordnance Corps) and 14 men were injured.[1]

The precise location of the bomb strike was on Allum Green House itself,[2] which still exists and is a private home. The site is commemorated by a memorial bench erected in 1980 by comrades of the deceased.

Those killed were:

  • Warrant Officer Class 2 H S Tyler
  • Staff Sergeant S H Avon,
  • Staff Sergeant E W E Gifford
  • Sergeant A W Blunn.

It was mentioned in R. C. Sherriff's Journey's End, as Raleigh lived there. Vera Brittain bought Allum Green Cottage in May 1939.[3]

See also

References

  1. ^ Blog entry
  2. ^ "RAF website". Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 24 April 2009.
  3. ^ Babey, Georgina. p32. "Images of England: New Forest" Tempus Publishing, 2001.


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