Allum Green

Allum Green
Allum Green House
Allum Green Location within Hampshire
OS grid reference	SU279071
Civil parish	Lyndhurst
District	New Forest
Shire county	Hampshire
Region	South East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Lyndhurst
Postcode district	SO43
Dialling code	023
Police	Hampshire and Isle of Wight
Fire	Hampshire and Isle of Wight
Ambulance	South Central
UK Parliament	New Forest East
List of places UK England Hampshire 50°51′43″N1°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

• Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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.