Allum Green

{{Short description|Hamlet in Hampshire, England}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}}

{{Use British English|date=June 2025}}

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|civil_parish = Lyndhurst

|shire_district = New Forest

|shire_county = Hampshire

|region = South East England

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|post_town = Lyndhurst

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Allum Green is a hamlet southwest of Lyndhurst, Hampshire, England.

During the night of 5/6 September 1940 it was the scene of a Luftwaffe bombing raid, which resulted in the deaths of four British Army soldiers of the RAOC (Royal Army Ordnance Corps) and 14 men were injured.[http://allumgreen.blogspot.com/ Blog entry]

The precise location of the bomb strike was on Allum Green House itself,{{Cite web |url=http://www.raf.mod.uk/bob1940/september6.html |title=RAF website |access-date=2009-04-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924084524/http://www.raf.mod.uk/bob1940/september6.html |archive-date=2015-09-24 |url-status=dead }} which still exists and is a private home. The site is commemorated by a memorial bench erected in 1980 by comrades of the deceased.

Those killed were:

• Warrant Officer Class 2 H S Tyler
• Staff Sergeant S H Avon,
• Staff Sergeant E W E Gifford
• Sergeant A W Blunn.

It was mentioned in R. C. Sherriff's Journey's End, as Raleigh lived there. Vera Brittain bought Allum Green Cottage in May 1939.Babey, Georgina. p32. "Images of England: New Forest" Tempus Publishing, 2001.