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ARP Messenger Boy - Picture from the Lowestoft Bunker « Posted: 13 November 2011 at 08:52 AM »
Aussie K (Keith) asked me to post this picture as he was having computer troubles.
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It is a photo found pinned up on the wall of the Denmark Rd. bunker by a workman not many so many years ago. The workman handed it over to a well known local person who handed it to my sister and it has come into my possession on her death.
He was an ARP messenger boy who's job it was to relay messages  during air raids to various bodies such as the police etc. (No phones readily available in those days.)

It appears that after he was killed the wardens acquired this photo and pinned it up on the wall in his memory.

To me that place is a war memorial.

A true hero at 17years old. 

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Re: ARP Messenger Boy - Picture from the Lowestoft Bunker « Reply #1 Posted: 13 November 2011 at 10:00 AM »
So sad, brings a tear God bless him
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Re: ARP Messenger Boy - Picture from the Lowestoft Bunker « Reply #2 Posted: 13 November 2011 at 04:47 PM »
Thanks for sharing this with us Aussie / Paulears, especially today when I myself, and I'm sure others, have been to rememberance services.
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Re: ARP Messenger Boy - Picture from the Lowestoft Bunker « Reply #3 Posted: 15 November 2011 at 11:06 PM »
He was Maurice Garrod aged 17. Recorded by the CWGC as an ARP Messenger.  He was the son of George Leonard and Evelyn May Garrod, of Tintern House, Chapel Street. He died some where in London Road North.
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Re: ARP Messenger Boy - Picture from the Lowestoft Bunker « Reply #4 Posted: 15 November 2011 at 11:14 PM »
Was he related to you, Aussie?
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Re: ARP Messenger Boy - Picture from the Lowestoft Bunker « Reply #5 Posted: 15 November 2011 at 11:58 PM »
Was Chapel Street in the Beach village? I don't recall the name?
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Re: ARP Messenger Boy - Picture from the Lowestoft Bunker « Reply #6 Posted: 16 November 2011 at 05:16 AM »
Chapel Street was somewhere  in the Factory Street area
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Re: ARP Messenger Boy - Picture from the Lowestoft Bunker « Reply #7 Posted: 16 November 2011 at 08:45 AM »
The date that Maurice died - 13 January 1942 - was the date of the town’s worst raid of the war - as far as casualties were concerned.

It was snowing at tea-time when an enemy Dornier dived to the main shopping area and, from only a few hundred feet up dropped four bombs which created a scene of havoc.  The biggest casualty list occurred in Waller’s Restaurant, where many civilians and service folk were at tea.  (The restaurant was, I think, roughly, where “H Samuel” and the fashion shop are today.)

Rescuers worked from that Tuesday evening to the following Saturday night, in frantic efforts to saved buried victims many of whom were saved by prompt rescue. Altogether sixty-nine people were killed, one classed as missing, and one-hundred-and-fourteen were injured during the attack.

The above information is from the report in “Port War” by Ford Jenkins
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Re: ARP Messenger Boy - Picture from the Lowestoft Bunker « Reply #8 Posted: 16 November 2011 at 08:55 AM »
How sad.
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Re: ARP Messenger Boy - Picture from the Lowestoft Bunker « Reply #9 Posted: 16 November 2011 at 11:10 AM »
A quote from his obituary in "The Lowestoft Jorunal":

“The deceased was a member of the Christchurch co. of the Boys’ Brigade, and when the Brigades were asked to supply a squad of boys to act as messengers for the report centre, he was one of the first to volunteer. His devotion to duty and courage earned him the esteem of those in charge of the centre.”
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