Cecil Allerton Oakes

A Private with the Royal Army Medical Corps, Cecil died on 6 May 1946 at the age of 27. 

Cecil was born at Carlton Colville in 1919, a son of Rudolph James and Annie Oakes. He was baptised at Saint Peter’s Church, Carlton Colville, on 13 July 1919, and his family lived at 13 Kimberley Road, Lowestoft. 

In 1921 his family lived at Shandwick, Chestnut Avenue, Lowestoft, and this was still their home in 1939 when Cecil was an unemployed barman.   

In 1941 Cecil married Kae Eleanor Papworth: this registered in the Hendon district. Kate lived at Upper Holloway, London. 

Cecil served with the Royal Army Medical Corps, service number 7362156. He died on 6 May 1946. 

Two of Cecil's uncles died in the First World War: Stanley Llewellyn, who served with the Royal Naval Reserve and died in 1916, and Cecil Allerton, who served with the Suffolk Regiment and died in 1917.