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Coder Charles William George Allman

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Serving onboard the HMS Arrow, Charles William George Allman died on 4th August 1943, which wikipedia says was the day it set on fire by the explosion of the merchant ship Fort La Montee while in Algiers harbour. He was a mssage coder with the Signals Corp.

From the 1939 Register, he lived with his parents at 35 Hawthorne Avenue:
Charles W. Allman, born 3rd May 1896, leather dresser
Daisy C. Allman, born 12th December 1893, housewife
Charles W.G. Allman,born 18th August 1924, iron moulder improver
Source: The National Archives; Kew, London, England; 1939 Register; Reference: RG 101/1373D

His father died in 1981 at the same address.

From Commonwealth War Grave Commission

Coder
ALLMAN, CHARLES WILLIAM GEORGE

Service Number P/JX252956

Died 04/08/1943

Aged 21

H.M.S. Arrow
Royal Navy

Son of Charles William and Daisy Caroline Allman, of Mitcham, Surrey.

Hawthorne Avenue

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Road off east side of Church Road and south of Mount Road.

1953 OS map

Houses are numbered even on the north side from 2 to 54, and odd on its south side from 1 to 29, then there is Oakwood Avenue, then from 31 to 47. The Royal Mail postcode finder shows 59 addresses, as some houses have been split into separate flats, all with the postcode of CR4 3DN.

The road was possibly built in the 1920s, as it is not shown on the 1911 OS map, but is on the 1933 map.

A person on the Facebook group Mitcham History said about her mother’s house:

The deeds show the transfer of lands and building gradually happening in Oakwood, Ashtree and Hawthorne from 1910. Houses built by Sir Isaac Wilson.

clip from aerial photo taken 10th February 1954, copyright Photoflight Limited

Maps are reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland.