First Boer war 16 December 1880 – 23 March 1881 Second Boer War 11 October 1899 – 31 May 1902 — Suffolk Regiments, 1st Battalion, movements and actions: Suffolk Regiment arrived at Cape Town in November 1899. The Heights at Colesberg, “Suffolk Hill” 5th/6th January 1900. The hill was originally called Red or Grassy Hill. […]
Category: Ipswich Stories
ROWLAND JABEZ WOODARD’S WW1 Diary
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. Rowland’s spelling and grammar has […]
67th Medium Regiment, R.A. (T.A.)
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 WORLD PEACE DAY CHRISTCHURCH PARK 19th July 1919
PEACE REJOICINGS “Extracts from Suffolk Chronicle and Mercury” A GREAT DAY’S FESTIVITIES AT IPSWICH Memorable Scenes in Christchurch Park. In common with the whole nation, Ipswich on Saturday celebrated the signing and ratification of Peace, and the occasion was one of manifest and great rejoicing, such as the borough has seldom seen the […]