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Merchant Navy Memorial. Ipswich Waterfront, Orwell Quay.

Posted on 3rd June 2020 by

Merchant Navy Memorial Ipswich Waterfront
Orwell Quay (James Hehir building)

WW1

Merchant Navy / Mercantile Marine. Both services suffered heavy losses from German u-boat attacks, enemy ships and under water mines. U-boats sank 7,759,090 tons,

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BURLINGTON BAPTIST CHURCH WW1 MEMORIAL

Posted on 22nd March 2020 by

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Click on the red writing for their details.

“*” Not recorded on the Christchurch Memorial.

ERNEST WILLIAM ABBOTT
GEORGE ISAAC ALDOUS
ERNEST EDWARD BLOOMFIELD
MARTIN LUTHER BOYCE
ALFRED WILLIAM COLEMAN
HENRY THOMAS DYER
CHARLES WALTER KETLEY*
FREDERICK WILLIAM THOMAS MUSSETT
ALFRED SIDNEY NICHOLLS
ERNEST SAMUEL PERCY
EDWARD ARTHUR RIDLEY*
HAROLD VICTOR SKINNER
JOHN FREDERICK STEBBINGS*

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Bethesda Baptist Church, Ipswich. War Memorial

Posted on 15th March 2020 by

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WW1

ERNEST JOHN ADAMS

CHARLES FREDERICK ARMER
ARTHUR JAMES BRILL
ERNEST BENJAMIN BURWOOD
WESLEY GARROD

LAZARUS HARRY HANCOCK

KENNETH DAINES MASON
FREDERICK CHARLES MOULL
WILLIAM ARTHUR PETTINGALE

BENJAMIN DANIEL REYNOLDS

JOSHUA REGINALD REYNOLDS
EDWARD ARTHUR ROSE

GEORGE BERTIE SCARLETT
PERCY ALBERT SHUFFLEBOTHAM
SIDNEY ARTHUR
FREDERICK ROBERT WILLIAM STEAD
OLIVER ALBERT WATSON

WW2

JOHN FREDERICK BOON

FREDERICK CHARLES GARROD

JACK HERBERT ROBERTSON

ERIC S SMITH*

RONALD PETER SNOWLING

ALFRED T.

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HERBERT JOHN MILTON

Posted on 8th March 2020 by

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Herbert is remembered on the war memorial at St. Helen’s Church, Ipswich.

Born: 1889, Wandsworth, London.

Baptised: 22nd September 1889, at St. Stephen’s Church, Clapham Park, Wandsworth. Parents: Fanny & Frederick Milton, a Police Constable, of 8, Elizabeth Place, Wandsworth.

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The Suffolk Regiment during the Boer War

Posted on 17th June 2019 by

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First Boer war 16 December 1880 – 23 March 1881

Second Boer War 11 October 1899 – 31 May 1902

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Suffolk Regiments, 1st Battalion, movements and actions:

Suffolk Regiment arrived at Cape Town in November 1899.

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SPRINGFIELD SCHOOL WW1 Memorial, Ipswich.

Posted on 6th June 2019 by

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SPRINGFIELD SCHOOL

A very impressive ceremony marked the unveiling and dedication of the
Springfield Council School War memorial at Ipswich on Friday morning.
The memorial itself took the shape of a wooden panel, bearing the names
of no less than 46 old boys who laid down their lives for their country
in the war.

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IPSWICH POLICE WW1 MEMORIAL

Posted on 13th April 2019 by

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The memorial was moved from Ipswich Police station (basement) Ipswich Town Hall to Martlesham Police Headquarters Suffolk.

IPSWICH POLICE MEMORIAL UNVEILED
21st October 1921

Suffolk Chronicle & Mercury newspaper.

There was a large gathering of members of the Ipswich Borough Police
Force in the Parade Room at the Police Station at 1:15p.m.

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ST. BARTHOLOMEW’S CHURCH WAR MEMORIAL

Posted on 1st April 2019 by

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click onto the red lettering to find out more

The alter was donated by the Woods family in memory of their 2 sons, lost during WW1.

Harold Wallace Woods

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ROWLAND JABEZ WOODARD’S WW1 Diary

Posted on 20th March 2019 by

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Pte.ROWLAND JABEZ WOODARD

Rowland kept an extensive diary and scrap book of his journey from England to Mesopotamia, sending many letters home which we have included in the timeline. The diary is of his thoughts and feelings of Army life with an insight into life around the world in 1917.

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