Olive May Bone

A Civilian, Olive died on 2nd of November 1940 aged 43. 

Olive was born at High Roding, Essex, in 1897, a daughter of Philip Thomas and Sarah Beadle Bone. In 1901 her family lived at Portland Road, Bishop’s Stortford. By 1911 they were living at Victoria House, Oulton Broad, and Olive was a mother’s help. 

In 1921 Olive was a patient at Saint Audrey’s Asylum, Melton, near Woodbridge, where she was still a resident in 1939.

Olive died as the result of an air raid. Commonwealth War Graves Records state that she was ‘of Lothingland House, Oulton Bridge, Lowestoft’ and that she died at St. Audreys Hospital, Melton. Transcripts of civilian casualty records suggest that she had been injured in an air raid and died later, but give no further details.