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No sooner did I get out of my car then I saw that the Centenary of the Great War truely was observed in this small Suffolk town. A shop window included this photo gallery of men from the town who made the ultimate sacrifice.

Top Row
Robert Lambert
Charles Heard
Robert Ward
Frederick Mowles
Stanley Scarff
Edmund Fromant

Second Row
Ophir Jarvis
Bertie Hammond
Harry Durrant
Leonard Bloomfield
Charles Codling
John William Betts

Third Row
John Tricker
James Welham
Willie Rolfe
Ernest Rolfe
Joshua Rowley
Benjamin Whymark

Fourth Row
Bertie Emmerson
George Willis
Cecil Claude Leeks
Bertie Gowers
Charles Mitchell
Charles Haddon Betts

Bottom Row
Gordon Peacock
Frank Bloomfield
Frederick Hinton Hockey
Edmund Budd
George Revans
Leo Durrant

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 Cosford District.

Neighbouring villages include Kersey, Aldham, Hintlesham, Chattisham, Raydon and Layham.

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

Note – researching Suffolk War Memorials is normally outside my scope, but having been asked if I could take images, I could not resist the urge to find out a little bit more myself about each name, before turning to the excellent website that documents Hadleigh in the Great War to see what they had found out. I have added a postscript for each name to indicate whats available on the relevant Hadleigh site webpage.

They shall not grow old, as we grow old. At the setting of the sun, and in the morning, we shall remember them.

That website can be viewed here: www.hadleighww1.com/

ADCOCK THOMAS E………. SERGT
ASKER HERBERT.J……………..PTE
CHILVERS PERCY.R…………..SERGT
DISDLE REGINALD.G…………PTE
EDWARDS STANLEY.W……….PTE
FISHER ERNEST.W................PTE
GOODRICK GEORGE.H……..PTE
GOWARD THOMAS.W………..CPL
GRAVER OLIVER.J.G…………PTE

Abbreviations used.
CWGC - Commonwealth War Graves Commission
SDGW - Soldiers Died in the Great War
Picture Norfolk - The Norfolk County Picture Archive

Wayland was the Civil District for the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriage.

For more on each name see the comments below

Panel 3
Great War
David Thorndyke
William Thorndyke
Dudley Oswald Thorn
Douglas Herbert Torbell
Leonard James Tuffs
Walter Edward Vine
Arthur Leonard Watkins
William Watling
Arthur Charles Weavers
Frederick Weavers
William Arthur Whistlecraft
Claude Russell Wright
Gerald Charles Wright

WW2
Leslie Frank Killock
Arthur Henry Killock
Edward Harold Quinton
Gerald Roper
Gordon Roper

For more on each name see comments below

Abbreviations used.
CWGC - Commonwealth War Graves Commission
SDGW - Soldiers Died in the Great War
Picture Norfolk - The Norfolk County Picture Archive

The Civil Registration District for Births, Deaths and Marriages is Hartismere.

Bertie L.Harvey - Norfolk Rgt
Sidney R.Woodhouse - Queens R.W.Surrey Rgt
George H.Summers- Norfolk Rgt

Donald F.Tyson - R.A.S.C
Bernard Sharpen - ???
Robert S.Allen - RAF

The church of St Martin, Overstrand is home to three separate forms of memorial to the fallen of WW1 and WW2. Outside in the churchyard is the War Memorial, while inside the names are carved on a wooden panel. Beneath the panel there are two bound books, one for each conflict. Each name remembered receives a small potted biography which I take no shame in reproducing here.

Norlink - Norfolk County Archive Picture Library
CWGC - Commonwealth War Graves Commission
SDGW - Soldiers Who Died in the Great War

H.Bradbrook
C.I.Levine
W.H.Hardingham
B.L.Harvey
H.G.Summers
S.R.Woodhouse
E.H.A.Naylor
H.S.Church
C.J.Bumfrey
C.W.Paul
C.A.Betts
S.F.W Codling
V.J.Bowden
F.H.Baxter

1939-45

B.Sharpen

The church of St Martin, Overstrand is home to three separate forms of memorial to the fallen of WW1 and WW2. Outside in the churchyard is the War Memorial, while inside the names are carved on a wooden panel. Beneath the panel there are two bound books, one for each conflict. Each name remembered receives a small potted biography which I take no shame in reproducing here.

Norlink - Norfolk County Archive Picture Library
CWGC - Commonwealth War Graves Commission
SDGW - Soldiers Who Died in the Great War