Age: 18
Sex: male
Date: 18 Oct 1945
Place: West Street, Widness
Herbert Lomax died from a bullet wound to the abdomen.
The manager of the Century Cinema in Widnes said that on the night of 17 October 1945 he had been sitting in his office when he had heard a loud report outside in the street and when he went out he saw Herbert Lomax lying on the footpath in West Street. He said that Herbert Lomax told him that he had shot himself.
see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
see Liverpool Evening Express - Friday 19 October 1945
see Unsolved 1945