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Frank Leonard Roach

A Civilian, Frank died on 10th of August 1941 at the age of 19. 

Frank was born at Lowestoft in 1922, a son of Sydney Alfred and Jessie May Roach. By 1939 his family were living at 71 Wollaston Road.

Frank served with the Home Guard.

On the night of 9-10 August 1941 an air raid took place at Lowestoft. Frank, his parents, Sydney and Jessie, William and Georgina Powell, and their son William, took shelter in a double Anderson shelter at the end of the garden of 71 Wollaston Road. A high explosive bomb scored a direct hit on the shelter killing everyone inside. 

Frank's cousin Henry died in 1944.

Lived at

Frank Roach
71
Wollaston Road
Lowestoft
United Kingdom

52.47853978392, 1.7474584085983

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United Kingdom
BranchService
Civilian
Burial/Memorial
Civilian War Dead
LOWESTOFT MUNICIPAL BOROUGH

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