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WILLIAM ROBERT HANTON PTE
EDWARD JAMES HARVEY PTE
CECIL HERBERT JACKSON PTE
ALFRED GEORGE POWLEY SERGT D.C.M.
EDWARD RICHARD SPALL GUNNER
CHARLES WILLIAM TAYLOR PTE
FREDERICK WILLIAM J. WEBB PTE
WALTER WILLIAM RUSSELL SPR.
WILLIAM VICTOR WRIGHT PTE
SUSANNAH HALL Q.M.A.A.C.

I’ve added more information for each name in the comments boxes below.

General notes when reading the comments.

The Civil Registration District for registering Births, Deaths and Marriages until 1938 was the Blofield District. From the 1st January 1939 when the Blofield District was abolished, it moved into the Acle Civil Registration District.

Neighbouring villages include Freethorpe, Wickhampton and Cantley north of the river, Thurlton south of the river.

Abbreviations used.
CWGC - Commonwealth War Graves Commission
SDGW – Soldiers Died in the Great War
IRC – International Red Cross
MIC – Medal Index Card

Also remembered on the Roll of Honour site
www.roll-of-honour.com/Norfolk/Reedham.html

I was visiting St Margarets Church in Lowestoft specifically to see the side chapel, dedicated to those who had lost their lives from the town in the Great War. The names of hundreds of them are written on panels down one side. I was here even more specifically to look for five names in particular – spread through-out the alphabet so that meant I needed good shots of at least five of the panels. Well I took pictures of them all, “just in case”. Not all are as sharp or framed as I might have liked and I definitely didn’t have time to thoroughly research all the names, (but who knows, I may come back!). So five panels are done, the rest are pot luck.

The Roll of Honour site has already made a start on trying to identify the names in the chapel.
www.roll-of-honour.com/Suffolk/LowestoftStMargaretsChurch...

For more on each name see comments below.

Abbreviations used.
CWGC - Commonwealth War Graves Commission
SDGW – Soldiers Died in the Great War

Mutford was the Civil District for the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriage, (until 1935 - when it became part of the new District of Lothingland).

M.W. COLEMAN
S.F. COLEMAN
T.A. COLEMAN
W.S. COLEMAN
W.V. COLEMAN
A. COLLINS (senr)
A.COLLINS (junr)
J.H. COLLINS
W.M. COLLINS
A.T. COOK
C. COOK
L. COOK
J.W. COOKES
E.E. COOPER
W. COOPER
W.E. COOPER
W.J. COOPER (M.M.)
E. COOTE
H.A. COPPIN

The Postcard

A postally unused carte postale published by N.G. of Saint-Quentin. Note the scaffolding that had been erected to stop the transept from collapsing.

If you look for the tag 47YPR45 you can see that the same thing was done for the central tower of Les Halles in Ypres, but in vain - the tower, along with the rest of the building, was reduced to little more than a pile of rubble.

Saint-Quentin and its Basilica

Saint-Quentin is the largest city in the Aisne department in Picardy in northern France. It is named after St. Quentin, who is said to have been martyred there in the 3rd. century.

The construction of the St. Quentin Basilica began in 1195 and continued for the next 300 years.

Germans occupied the city on the 28th. August 1914 and integrated it into the Hindenburg Line.

Whilst in occupation, German troops and their officers systematically pillaged the city, with the wholesale removal of goods including coal, factory equipment, wine and mattresses (for wool).

The Destruction of the Basilica

The pipes of the massive organ in the Basilica were removed by the Germans and melted down to make weapons and ammunition.

On the 15th. August 1917, the Basilica was set on fire, and by the next afternoon virtually all that was left of it were the outer walls.

The city was finally liberated after many battles on the 1st. October 1918. By then, over 80% of the city's buildings had been badly damaged.

On entering the Basilica, French soldiers were outraged to find in the walls and supporting pillars 93 large holes filled with explosives so that the edifice could be blown up, just as the Germans had done to the Donjon de Courcy in 1917.

The largest of the holes were 110 cm deep, 80 cm wide and 70 cm high.

A German engineer had been left behind to carry out the diabolical task, but he was stopped just in time, so that what remained of a medieval masterpiece was preserved for future generations.