Born: Leeds, Yorkshire. Died: 5th May 1918; KiA. Residence: Ipswich Enlistment Location: Leeds, Yorkshire. Rank: Lance Corporal; Service Number: 35816. Regiment: Northumberland Fusiliers, 1st Battalion. Medals Awarded: Victory & British War. Grave Reference: IV.D.6. Chocques Military Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France. In 1912, Ipswich, James married Ethel Rose Webb, born 1887, Ipswich. […]
Month: January 2017
ERNEST JOHN THOMPSON
Born: 1894, Ipswich. Died: 12th February 1920; Age: 25; Pulmonary Tuberculosis at Ipswich. Served 3 years & 33 days. Residence: 21, Oxford Road, Ipswich. Enlistment Details: Location: Ipswich; Date: 19th March 1912; Age: 17 years & 11 months; Occupation: Sorting Clerk & Telegraphist – H.M. Government. Next of Kin: father – A. Thompson of, […]
EDWARD PETER PAYNE
image from 1917 Suffolk Chronicle & Mercury newspaper Born: 9th February 1895, Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex. Died: 9th April 1917; age: 22; KiA. Edward had been employed for three years by Mr. G. M. Smith, Hardware Stores, Felixstowe Road, Ipswich, before leaving for Canada. Enlistment Details: Location: Vancouver, British Columbia; Date: 31st August 1915; Occupation: Labourer; […]
ALFRED EDGERLY PAYNE
Image from 1917 Suffolk Chronicle and Mercury newspaper Born: 29th October 1896, Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex. Died: 10th November 1917; age: 21; KiA – attack North of Passchendaele. Residence: Bromley Crescent, Bromley, Kent. Enlistment Details: Location: Vernon, British Columbia, Canada; Date: 21st July 1915; Age: 19; Occupation: Apprentice Machinist; Religion: CofE. Next of Kin: mother – […]
ERIC WALTER DURRANT
Eric is remembered on Alan road Methodist church memorial Ipswich. Born: 1897, Felixstowe, Suffolk. Died: 2:35pm, 11th February 1919; age: 22; Died of Broncho Pneumonia – J8 Ward, Military Hospital, Magdalen Camp, Winchester, Hampshire. Served 3 years & 17 days. Next of Kin notified on that day. Residence: Highcliffe, Cobbold Road, Felixstowe, Suffolk. Enlistment Details: […]
HERBERT KETHRO STEDMAN
Herbert’s portrait and profile will be displayed at a V.J. Day exhibition, “Be Ye Men of Valour“, from Saturday, 9th August to Monday, 25th August (Bank Holiday) 2025, at St. Margaret’s Church, Ipswich, IP4 2BT. Photograph and information courtesy of Tony. Born: 4th April 1907, at 173, Cavendish Street, Ipswich. Died: 16th March […]
Museum Street Methodist Church War Memorial
WW1 FENTON CHARLES BANTHORPE ALBERT HENRY BRUNNING ALFRED CHARLES GIDNEY* PHILIP ERNEST PELL HERBERT STEPHEN POPPLEWELL REGINALD NICHOLAS TROTT DONALD PRETTY HAROLD PRETTY ROWLAND REES* LESLIE HAYDON REEVE ARTHUR SIDNEY STRUGNELL WILLIAM WISBY *not on Christchurch Park Memorial. Museum Street Methodist Church website. Roll of honour from those who survived the war from […]
Alan Road Methodist Church Memorial Ipswich
WW1 THOMAS R S ADAMS ARHUR P ATHROLL ALFRED E BREWER JAMES H BROWN* H PERCIVAL COLLAR HERBERT S DAY ERIC W DURRANT* HERBERT J EMSDEN T DICBY GIBLING AUDLEY A GREEN ALFRED PAYNE* EDWARD PAYNE* ARTHUR B PECK ALFRED PREECE WILLIAM PUNCHARD ERNEST C ROBINSON AUGUSTESTUS F RUFFORD ERNEST J THOMPSON* […]
WILLIAM HENRY CATTERMOLE
Laid to rest at the Field of Honour. Born: 1919, Brightlingsea, Essex. Baptised: 5th May 1919, at All Saints Church, Brightlingsea. Died: 2nd May 1941; age 22; killed by a gunshot wound through the heart, at Shoreham Fort, Chatham, Kent. Suicide whilst the balance of his mind was disturbed. Inquest held on the 5th May […]
CHARLES MARKHAM WESTBROOK
Charlie’s portrait and profile will be displayed at a V.J. Day exhibition, “Be Ye Men of Valour“, from Saturday, 9th August to Monday, 25th August (Bank Holiday) 2025, at St. Margaret’s Church, Ipswich, IP4 2BT. Laid to rest at the Field of Honour CHARLIE Born: 13th November 1923, 2, Balkan Terrace, St. Andrew’s Road, […]