Born: 20th April 1912.
Story
Alan’s parents were William Lakin (1875-1941) who was originally from Walsall, and was a Railway Goods Guard, and Ada Burley (1882-1965). They married on 20th April 1908 in Ada’s home village of Altofts, Wakefield, and later moved to Normanton. Alan was born at 23 Croft Avenue, Normanton, and stayed there until 1937, when he moved away to Sussex, where he had followed his mother’s profession, and was working as a Nurse.
In 1941, Alan was brought to Kippax when he married a Chemist’s Clerk, Lucy Kilburn (1914-2007). Lucy’s parents William Kilburn (1878-1947) and Sarah Goodall (1882-1961) who married in Kippax on 23rd September 1911, lived at 4 Marchmont Crescent, Kippax, and Alan gave this as his correspondence address on the Service Register. The house numbers changed in the late 1950s, so this would have been the equivalent of no.8 now. On 1st June 1945, it was reported that Alan was due to send a message from Burma to his wife and parents in law and this appeared at the Tower Picture House, Leeds on Monday 4th June 1945, in the Army Welfare film, “Calling Blighty.” After the War, Alan and Lucy moved to Lancashire, where Alan passed away in 1979.
Below: Yorkshiremen based in Burma sending messages home in “Calling Blighty”:
Kippax Roll of Honour 