Herbert Howard Brighton

A Civilian, Herbert died on 29 April 1942, at the age of 35.

Herbert was born at Lowestoft on 14 September 1906, a son of Levi Herbert and Ellen Jane Elizabeth Brighton. He was baptised at Christchurch, Lowestoft, on 14 October 1906, and his family lived at 41 Lorne Road, Kirkley, and this was still their home in 1911. 

Herbert became a pupil at Lovewell School on 24 April 1911.

In 1921 his family were still living at 41 Lorne Road and Herbert was an office boy for the United Automobile Company (Motor Bus Services) at Laundry Lane, Lowestoft. By 1939 his parents were living at 33 Saint Peter’s Road, Lowestoft, and later they moved to 9 Beatrice Road, Thorpe, Norwich.

On 26 October 1932, Herbert married Dorothy Alice Day, at Saint John’s Church, Lowestoft. Herbert was a motor mechanic living at Rye Mile, Rye Street, Bishop’s Stortford, and Dorothy was living at 59 Saint John’s Road, Lowestoft.  

In 1939 Herbert and Dorothy were living at 16 Ethel Road, Norwich. Herbert served in the Home Guard. 

Dorothy and Herbert both died at the Ethel Road Air Raid Shelter during an air raid on 29 April 1942.