Ronald Allin
Attended Queen Ekizath School from 1923 to 1927.
Assistant Cashier/Wages Clerk
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Son of John Herbert and Lydia Allin of 21 Kingsway, Kirkby in Ashfield; husband of Ivy Maude Allin, of Carlton, Nottinghamshire.
Ronald married Ivy Maud Ware in 1935 and they had 2 sons. John R Allin born 5th May 1937 and Philip born after his father's death on 2nd June 1943.
Ivy had been born in 1907 and she re-married in 1957 to George Morley and passed away in 1984.
In 1939 the family were living at 12 Midland Road, Carlton, Nottingham.
According to the Old Elizabeathan's Service Roll Book Ronald was lost on raid on the Lorient Submarine base on the 14th February 1943 and that he had taken part in 22 operational flights.
The Lorient Submarine Base had been built near Brest in the Bay of Biscay in 1942 to service the U-Boats operating in the North Atlantic. Between 14th Jan and 17th Feb 1943 Allied aircraft dropped 600 High Explosive bombs and 60,000 Incendiary Bombs on the base leaving 90% of the town flattened.
According to IBCC records Ronald had been posted in to Fiskerton from 25 OTU Finningley on 18th August 1942 (2 days after his 31st birthday).
He was flying in an Avro Lancaster III serial number ED 450 Markings E-AEG. They took off from RAF Fiskerton on the 13th Feb . The aircraft was damaged and was making its way back to RAF Harrowbear when it collided with the cables of a Barrage Balloon and crashed into the sea off Plymouth Sound, Devon. There were no survivors and the wreckage was not discovered until 1975.
Ronald's body was not recovered and he is remembered on the RAF Memorial at Runneymede panel 122.
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