Image courtesy of Jack Knight, Little Thurlow airfield 1940. Do you have a family member from this Regiment? We are researching Suffolk men who served in the 67th in WW2. They fought in North Africa and were captured at Tobruk in June 1942, becoming prisoners of war. We hold a unique collection of photos […]
IPSWICH WAR MEMORIAL
HOLY TRINITY IPSWICH WW1 & WW2 WAR MEMORIALS
*Not on Christchurch Park war memorial FIRST WORLD WAR HOLY TRINITY VICTOR CHRISTOPHER ABRAM JOHN ARTHUR ABBOTT JAMES JOHN ABBOTT ROBERT ABBOTT WALTER DOUGLAS AGER GEORGE WILLIAM AIREY STANLEY FRANCIS BAILEY HENRY GEORGE BAKER WILLIE ERNEST BALES FRANCIS LIONEL BARNARD SIDNEY STANLEY BARRELL A. BATLEY* (Batley living in the area) FREDERICK CHARLES BAXTER GEORGE […]
St Mary & St Botolph Whitton Church War Memorial
Whitton-cum-Thurleston Percy Airey Henry Bragg William H Chapman D Calybut Downing Benjamin Farthing Bertram C Andrews Percy Fox R C Guthrie-smith Percy Lankester Albert E V Mann Milson Morphey Bertram V Shemming WW2 War graves Aldridge Wright Ernest L. Smyth John Percy Sympson Every year a Battle of Britain Service is held in memory of all […]
St. Clement’s Church WW1 War Memorial
JOHN ARTHUR ABBOTT VICTOR CHRISTOPHER ABRAM WILLIAM ARCHER F. ARNOLD* R. BACKHOUSE (ROBERT PETER) JOHN ROBERT BENNETT PERCY JAMES BERRY WILLIAM GEORGE BIRD CHARLES ERNEST BRADBROOK JOHN ISAAC BRADBROOK JAMES BRUNNING ARTHUR JAMES BURROWS RICHARD JOHN BURWOOD C. CHISWELL* (EDWARD ERNEST CHISNALL) W.B.CLARKE* JOHN HENRY JOSEPH COOK FRANK DALBY FRANCIS GEORGE DENNY WILLIAM […]
St. Clement’s Congregational Church WW1 Memorial
Sadly the Church has been sold and permission for it to be converted into flats has been given. The memorial has been removed to St. Clements parish church down the hill. (arts centre). JESSE JOHN ARBONROBERT ABBOTTPERCY ALLARDWILLIAM JAMES BAKER WILLIAM BARKERFRANK JAMES BARTRUM* CHARLES GEORGE BATLEYALFRED EDWARD BUGG FREDERICK EDWARD SNELL HARRY WILLIAM CARRITTREGINALD […]
IPSWICH ODDFELLOWS LODGE WW1 MEMORIAL
Memorial Plaque mounted at Anglesea Heights Care Home formally the Ipswich and East Suffolk Hospital, Anglesea Road. Currently owned by Ipswich School. A postcard from the 1920’s mentions the Plaques intended location. “This tablet is to be placed over a bed in the New Memorial Wing of the East Suffolk & Ipswich Hospital. At present […]
Ransomes, Sims & Jefferies Ltd. sports field, Ipswich, WW2 memorial
Ransomes, Sims & Jefferies Ltd. is now known as Ransomes Jacobsen premier supplier of high-quality turf equipment, utility vehicles, golf cars and tractors for prestigious championship golf courses worldwide. The Ipswich Star 3rd May 1958 images courtesy of Sally. The gates were built in memory of employees who lost their lives during WW2 DONALD BERNARD […]
St.Matthew’s Church Ipswich War memorials
WW1 Memorial VISCOUNT ALLENBY UNVEILS AN IPSWICH MEMORIAL. Suffolk Chronicle & Mercury newspaper 1921. The Lord Bishop of Suffolk and Field Marshal Viscount Allenby, G.C.B., figured in the great congregation which assembled at St. Matthew’s Church, Ipswich, on Sunday afternoon, when the former dedicated the memorial chapel situate in the north chancel, which it is […]
GUY BARGO MOFFAT-WILSON
Born: 1889 Died:06/06/1944 Age:55 Rank: Private Service Number: S/215032 Regiment: Royal Army Service Corps Grave Reference: C.31.24. Ipswich Old Cemetery, Ipswich. Parents Notified: SON OF WILLIAM MOFFAT WILSON AND OF KATHLEEN WILSON (NEE NEILSON); HUSBAND OF EDITH MOFFAT-WILSON, OF NORTHCHURCH, HERTFORDSHIRE.
STANLEY HORACE CHITTOCK
Image from the Evening Star – 23rd January 1942 Remembered by Ransomes, Sims & Jefferies with entrance gates, dedicated in May 1958, at Ransomes Sports’ Centre, Sidegate Avenue, Ipswich Born: 1920, Ipswich. Died: 14th November 1942; age 22; Drowned as an Italian PoW on board S.S.’Scillin.’ Employed: at Ransomes, Sims & Jefferies, Orwell Works, […]