Allan Victor Crouch

A Leading Aircraftman with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, Allan died on 2nd of May 1943 aged 29.

Allan was born at Longfield, Kent, on 27 May 1913, a son of William and Edith Crouch. He was baptised at Saint Mary the Virgin Church, Fawkham, Kent, on 17 August 1913. The 1939 Register shows Allan living with his widowed mother, and siblings, at Yew Cottage, New Barn, Dartford. Allan was a butcher's roundsman and was also a member of the Auxiliary Fire Service. 

Allan married Edna May Doggett, of The Cottage, Church Lane, Gunton, at Lowestoft in 1940. Edna remarried, at Lowestoft, in 1946. 

Allen enlisted in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve after April 1940. Allan was serving at RAF Helwan, Egypt, when he committed suicide at Helwan Railway Station.

See: Air Forces WW2 Casualty : Leading Aircraftman A V CROUCH (1218234), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve [RAFCommands]

WITH THANKS TO: Malcolm Barrass