Ernest John Allen
A Private with 45 Divisional Supply Column. Ernest died on 2nd of October 1940 aged 24.
Ernest was born at Lowestoft on 8 October 1915, a son of Albert and Lilian May Allen. He was baptised at Saint Margaret's Church, Lowestoft, on 11 November 1915 and his family lived at 50 Cambridge Road.
After Ernest's father's death his mother married John Nathan and by 1921 his family were living at 71 Beresford Road.
In 1935 Ernest married Eileen Ivy Brooks, at Lowestoft, and by 1939 the were living at The Bungalow, rear of 19 Clapham Road, Lowestoft, and Ernest worked as a butcher's assistant. In 1940 they lived at 30 North End, East Grinstead. Eileen later remarried.
The official casualty list 340, of 22 October 1940, states that Ernest was accidentally killed. A report in the Sussex and Surrey Courier, 12 October 1940, page 1, gives details of the inquest concerning Ernest's death. Evidence from various witnesses showed that Ernest had been riding a bicycle, without lights, near Buckhurst Way, East Grinstead, about 8.30 p.m. on 2 October. A motor coach was travelling towards East Grinstead and overtook a stationary bus. The coach driver felt an impact on the off side front wing of the coach. It was concluded that the coach driver could not have seen Ernest and collided with him and killing him. A verdict of accidental death was recorded.
Ernest's father was killed in 1918 whilst serving on the drifter Violet May.
linked
Ernest Allen
71
Beresford Road
Lowestoft
United Kingdom
Add new comment