Trixie Joyce Bolton

A Civilian, Trixie died on 6th of March 1941 aged 18. 

Trixie was born at Lowestoft on 17 October 1922, a daughter of Harry and Maggie Bolton. By 1939 her family were living at 155 The Avenue. In March 1941 Trixie was working at Lowestoft Public Library on Clapham Road. 

Lowestoft resident Alfred J. Turner mentioned Trixie in an account of the air raid on 6 March 1941. He described her as a ‘very nice little girl, who frequently got my books for me’. When the air raid took place, the librarian moved all of the people in the library to the air raid shelter. Turner adds ‘this little girl was well in front but went to get her hat and coat from another room’ it was at this point that Trixie was killed and the library building was destroyed.