Our Fallen
People of Lowestoft 1914-45
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181140 Raid

18/11/1940 09:55 Royal Avenue, Sussex Road, Somerton Avenue, E.S.C.C. Depot, Pakefield, Skamacre Crescent 2 civilians killed, 3 service personnel killed, 10 civilians injured, 21 service personnel injured, bomb types 5 I Bs. 5 1

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Harry Hoyle

A Civilian, Harry died on 18th of November 1940 aged 10. Harry was born at Great Yarmouth on 23 July 1930, a son of Percy Oliver and Lily May Hoyle. In 1939 his family lived at 3 Davy Cottages, High Street, Gorleston. Harry’s maternal grandmother, Althea Sarbutt, nee James, lived at 63 Raglan Street.It appears that Harry was visiting Lowestoft and was outside the naval base, on Battery Green Road, when he was injured in an air raid and he died the same day at the Lowestoft and North Suffolk Hospital. 181140 Raid, Pic recently added

Ernest Edward Folkard

A Civilian, Ernest died on 17th of March 1944, at the age of 50. Ernest was born at Herringfleet on 28 January 1894, a son of George and Julia Folkard. He was baptised at Saint Margaret's Church, Herringfleet, on 1 April 1894. In 1901 his family lived at Herringleet Road, Herringfleet, and in 1911 at 11 Sunny Bank Cottages, Herringfleet, and Ernest worked as a farm labourer. Ernest served in the Army during World War One. Initially he served with the Army Service Corps and then the Royal Irish Fusiliers. He was discharged, because of wounds, on 28 October 1918. 181140 Raid