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Black and white head-and-shoulders portrait of a man with a mustache, wearing a military uniform with RAF wings on his jacket.

Harold Henry Allgood, Merton Street

3 Merton Street, Newnham, Cambridge

History of 3 Merton Street

Hughes Hall was founded in Crofton Cottages in 1885, the first British institution to provide specialised teacher training for women graduates.

3 Merton Road, Newnham (RGL2026)


1939

Florence G Allgood, b 1876, lodging house keeper

James, b 1885, gardener

Cyril J, b 1909, shorthand typist

Edwin S, b 1912

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Harold and Edwin, two sons, lost their lives serving with the RAF in WWII. Harold Henry Allgood (b 1915) was one of ‘The Few’, a Battle of Britain pilot who died when his Hurricane crashed at Maidstone on 10th October 1940. Harold is buried and Edwin is remembered at the St Mark’s burial ground near Barton.

Edwin was killed in 1942 when his Liberator was attacked off the Lofoten Islands by German fighters.

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