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Allum Green
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Allum Green
Location within Hampshire
OS grid reference SU279071
Civil parish
District
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town Lyndhurst
Postcode district SO43
Dialling code 023
Police Hampshire
Fire Hampshire
Ambulance South Central
EU Parliament South East England
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UK
England
Hampshire
50°51′43″N1°36′18″W / 50.8619°N 1.6049°W / 50.8619; -1.6049 Coordinates: 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.

Hamlet (place) Small human settlement in a rural area

A hamlet is a small human settlement. In different jurisdictions and geographies, hamlets may be the size of a town, village or parish, be considered a smaller settlement or subdivision or satellite entity to a larger settlement. The word and concept of a hamlet have roots in the Anglo-Norman settlement of England, where the old French hamlet came to apply to small human settlements. In British geography, a hamlet is considered smaller than a village and distinctly without a church.

Lyndhurst, Hampshire village and civil parish in Hampshire, England

Lyndhurst is a large village and civil parish situated in the New Forest National Park in Hampshire, England. Serving as the administrative capital of the New Forest, it is a popular tourist attraction, with many independent shops, art galleries, cafés, museums, pubs and hotels. The nearest city is Southampton, about nine miles (14 km) to the north-east. As of 2001 Lyndhurst had a population of 2,973, increasing to 3,029 at the 2011 Census. The name derives from an Old English name, comprising the words lind and hyrst.

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]

<i>Luftwaffe</i> Aerial warfare branch of the German military forces during World War II

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Royal Army Ordnance Corps

The Royal Army Ordnance Corps (RAOC) was a corps of the British Army. At its renaming as a Royal Corps in 1918 it was both a supply and repair corps. In the supply area it had responsibility for weapons, armoured vehicles and other military equipment, ammunition and clothing and certain minor functions such as laundry, mobile baths and photography. The RAOC was also responsible for a major element of the repair of Army equipment. In 1942 the latter function was transferred to the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME) and the vehicle storage and spares responsibilities of the Royal Army Service Corps were in turn passed over to the RAOC. The RAOC retained repair responsibilities for ammunition, clothing and certain ranges of general stores. In 1964 the McLeod Reorganisation of Army Logistics resulted in the RAOC absorbing petroleum, rations and accommodation stores functions from the Royal Army Service Corps as well as the Army Fire Service, barrack services, sponsorship of NAAFI (EFI) and the management of staff clerks from the same Corps. On 5 April 1993, the RAOC was one of the corps that amalgamated to form The Royal Logistic Corps (RLC).

The precise location of 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.

Memorial bench

A memorial bench or memorial seat is a piece of furniture which commemorates a person who has died. Memorial benches are typically made of wood, but can also be made of metal, stone, or synthetic materials. Typically memorial benches are placed in public places but are often also placed in domestic gardens.

Those killed were:

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]

R. C. Sherriff playwright

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<i>Journeys End</i> 1929 play written by R. C. Sherriff

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Vera Brittain English nurse and writer

Vera Mary Brittain was an English Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) nurse, writer, feminist, and pacifist. Her best-selling 1933 memoir Testament of Youth recounted her experiences during the First World War and the beginning of her journey towards pacifism.

Further reading

Further details can be found at Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) is an intergovernmental organisation of six independent member states whose principal function is to mark, record and maintain the graves and places of commemoration of Commonwealth of Nations military service members who died in the two World Wars. The Commission is also responsible for commemorating Commonwealth civilians who died as a result of enemy action during World War II. The Commission was founded by Sir Fabian Ware and constituted through Royal Charter in 1917 named the Imperial War Graves Commission. The change to the present name took place in 1960.

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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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