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OS grid reference
  
SU279071

Country
  
England

Post town
  
Lyndhurst

Local time
  
Sunday 3:24 PM

District
  
New Forest District

Civil parish
  
Lyndhurst

Region
  
South East

Sovereign state
  
United Kingdom

Postcode district
  
SO43

Shire county
  
Hampshire

Dialling code
  
023

UK parliament constituency
  
New Forest East

Allum Green

Weather
  
10°C, Wind SW at 34 km/h, 87% Humidity

Allum Green is a hamlet southwest of Lyndhurst, Hampshire (where the 2011 Census population was included), 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.

The precise location of bomb strike was on Allum Green House itself, 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.

    References

    Allum Green Wikipedia