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1939-45

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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

The Roll of Honour for Cromer for the Great War can be found in a room at the foot of the Tower of the church of St Peter and St Paul. It lists 94 names rather than the 88 shown on the War memorial in the church yard. The additional names are highlighted below - there is then additional information about these 6 in the comments box below. Finally, while researching those six I came across a number of other individuals with a Cromer connection who might have a claim to also appear on the memorial.

Frank Allen.........................died 01/07/1916
Gilbert Allen.......................died 13/11/1916
James Percy Allen..............died 25/04/1918,
Stephen Allen....................died 26/08/1916
William Robert Allen...........died 26/10/1917
Cecil Charles Amis............died 20/08/1918.
Horace Walpole Amis........died 25/03/1918
Robert Joseph Amis..........died 14/05/1918
Thomas Sidney Amis........died 09/10/1918
William Walter Amis.........died 18/08/1918
Gilbert Spencer Balls........died 25/04/1917
Walter Balls.....................died 09/05/1917
Norman (James) Bastow...died 16/04/1916
(Only\Onley) George Benjamin Beck
Albert Edward Blythe........died 25/10/1918
George Bodley..............
Charles John Bumfrey.......died 20/09/1917
Arthur Edward Bunn.........died 24/10/1917
Lewis Ambrose Burton......died 24/11/1915
Andrew Richard Buxton.....died 07/06/1917
James Shuckburgh Carter.died 27/09/1918
Andrew John Clarke..........died 22/02/1919
George Henry Clarke........died 21/04/1918
Herbert Richard Clarke......died 08/06/1915
Arthur Harry Cook.............died 12/07/1917
Sydney Isaac Cook...........died 30/07/1917
Arthur William Craske.......died 23/10/1917
George Thomas Craske....died 28/02/1917
Lindsay (Oswald) Crawford..died 22/09/1918
Ernest John Daniels.........died 12/02/1918
Thomas Frederick Davies....(possibly) died 12/09/1917
Daniel Dempsey...............died 23/05/1917
David Cecil Charles Dulley...died 19/05/1916
William Guy Durrant............died 20/08/1915
Bertie Thomas Farrow.........died 10/04/1918
Ernest Richard Farrow.........died 24/02/1918
Athelstan Alfred Lennox Fenner...died 31/01/1918
Cyril Frederick Hamilton Fenner...died 24/09/1916
John Leslie Fish..................died 03/07/1916
Geoffrey King Frost..............died 05/12/1917
Ambrose Golding.................died 01/05/1917
Arthur Charles Palmer Gowing.......died 23/04/1917
Walter Grix.........................died 03/10/1918
Herbert Otho Hamilton..........died 25/09/1915
(Philip)Anthony Harbord........died 01/12/1917
John Harbord.......................died 10/07/1917
William March Hardingham....died 11/06/1917
Archibald Hastings...............died 19/04/1917
Bertie Hastings....................died 19/04/1917
Bertie Harvey.......................died 16/07/1917
George Hawk(e)sley.............died 22/03/1918
John Herbert Hewitt...............died 16/04/1917
Cyril Stanley Hicks..............died 04/09/1916
Frank Edgar Holdom...........died 21/09/1916
Charles George Hurrell........died 20/07/1916
Alan Bishop Jarvis..............died 10/08/1917
Leonard John Jefferson........died 19/09/1918
Derrick Hayward Kettle.......died 18/09/1918
Felix Marmaduke Kettle......died 06/12/1918
John William Kirby.............died 23/03/1918
William Lake.....................died 17/07/1915
Edward James Larwood......died 09/05/1915
Herbert George Laycock.....died 03/09/1918
Charles Wales Leggett.......died 23/11/1918
Cyril Isaac Levine..........died 27/05/1917
Meyer Joseph Levine.........died 08/05/1918
Ernest Sporne Mobbs........died 10/07/1918
Reginald Wood Moulton.....died 23/11/1917
Charles Robert Moy...........died 07/09/1915
George William Needs.......died 12/08/1915
Francis Arthur St George Nelson..died 11/09/1916
Hilary Cossey Nockels......died 01/07/1916
Alfred Norton.....................died 06/03/1915
Robert Gaff Painter............died 24/07/1916
William Thomas Payne......died 21/08/1915
Oliver Crossley Rayner......died 18/11/1916
Thomas Robinson.............died 21/08/1915
Arthur Benjamin Royall......died 26/09/1917
William Salter......possibly died 09/08/1916
Ernest J Savory...possibly died 20/11/1918
Sidney Robert Savory........died 14/09/1914
Enoch Shipley..................died 29/10/1916
George Cyril Smith...........died 26/09/1916
Sidney Arthur Smith.........died 15/09/1916
Walter Robert Allen Spalding.....died 03/07/1917
Henry Maurice / Burton Henry Morris Stearman
George Thomas Christmas Stimpson.....died 18/09/1916
Harold Joseph Tibbalds............died 11/05/1917
William James Walker
William Williamson.................died 13/08/1915
Herbert Wilson.......................died 27/11/1915
Herbert Ernest Youell..............died 03/04/1918
Francis Henry Baxter..............died 18/04/1918
Ernest William Baxter.............died 22/08/1918

With grateful acknowledgement to the Roll of Honour site (RoH) which served as my starting point:-
www.roll-of-honour.com/Norfolk/Cromer.html

For more on each name, see comments.
(SDGW - Soldiers Who Died in the Great War
CWGC - Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Norlink - Norfolk County Picture Archive)

60996 Private C I Levine
Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
27th May 1917 Age 20

Detail from main headstone

Died of Wounds
Beloved son of Louis and Barbara Levine

Name: LEVINE, CYRIL ISAAC
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
Unit Text: 112th Coy
Age: 20
Date of Death: 27/05/1917
Service No: 60996
Additional information: Son of Louis and Barbara Levine, of "Dunrobin," Norwich Rd. Rd., Cromer, Norfolk. Born at Norwich.
Grave/Memorial Reference: Jewish. 46. Cemetery: NORWICH CEMETERY, Norfolk

www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=2803208

Cyril can be seen here
norlink.norfolk.gov.uk/02_Catalogue/02_013_PictureTitleIn...

The accompanying notes read
Private Levine was from Overstrand. He was born at 40, Thorpe Road, Norwich on 7th August 1896, and was educated at Bracondale School, Norwich. He enlisted on 27th April 1916, and died from wounds received in action at the Battle of Arras on 27th May 1917. He is buried at the Jewish Cemetery in Norwich
On Norlink his unit is given as the Essex Regiment.

112th Company Machine Gun Corps was part of 112th Brigade, 37th Division. Engagements at this period include:-
Engagements as part of 37th Division:
Arras, First Battle of the Scarpe, 9-14 April 1917, 3rd Army VI Corps (37th noted for capture of Monchy le Preux)
Arras, Second Battle of the Scarpe, 23-24 April 1917, 3rd Army XVII Corps
Arras, Battle of Arleux, 28-29 April 1917, 3rd Army XVII Corps

www.stevenberry.org/138.html

At the time of the 1901 Census, the family consisted of

Louis Levine, age 34, born Norwich, married, Profession Pawnbroker and dealer in antiquities
Barbara Levine, age 30, born North Shields, Northumberland
Victor Levine, age 4, born Norwich
Cyril Levine, age 4, born Norwich
Henrietta Levine, age 3, born Norwich
Myer Levine, age 1, born Norwich.

The family lived at 66 Prince of Wales Road, Norwich, and had one live in servant, Florence Naylor, (Genes Re-united have transcribed this as Neylor)

An 1894 Commercial Directory of the Jews of the UK lists a Louis Levine at 19, Pottergate Street, Norwich, trading as a Silversmith and Pawnbroker.

Second Lieutenant M J Levine
Royal Air Force
8th May 1918 Age 18

Detail from main headstone

Killed in an aeroplane collision
Beloved son of Louis and Barbara Levine

Name: LEVINE, MYER JOSEPH
Rank: Second Lieutenant Service: Royal Air Force Unit Text: 53rd Training Sqdn.
Age: 18 Date of Death: 08/05/1918
Additional information: Son of Louis and Barbara Levine, of "Dunrobin," Norwich Rd., Cromer, Norfolk. Born at Norwich.
Grave/Memorial Reference: Jewish. 47. Cemetery: NORWICH CEMETERY, Norfolk
www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=2803209

Myer can be seen here
norlink.norfolk.gov.uk/02_Catalogue/02_013_PictureTitleIn...
The accompanying notes read
Flight Lieutenant Levine was born at 66, Prince of Wales Road, Norwich on 10th September 1899. He was educated at the Bracondale School, Norwich, and at the Paston Grammar School, North Walsham. He enlisted as a private in the Northumberland Fusiliers in June 1915. He was killed in an aerial collision near Stamford, Lincolnshire, on 8th May 1918. He is buried in the Jewish Cemetery in Norwich
From the history of Narborough aerodrome
53 Reserve Sqn arrived from Sedgeford on 14th December 1916, being renamed 53 Training Sqn on 31st May 1917. This unit flew Avro 504J, DH6, RE8 and BE2e aircraft. During December 1917, they moved to Harlaxton
www.raf.mod.uk/rafmarham/aboutus/narboroughaerodrome.cfm

The squadron was resident at Harlaxton 6 Dec 1917 - 15 Aug 1918, at which point it merged 64th Training Squadron to form 40th TDS.
raf-lincolnshire.info/harlaxton/harlaxton.htm


60996 Private C I Levine
Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
27th May 1917 Age 20

Detail from main headstone

Died of Wounds
Beloved son of Louis and Barbara Levine

Name: LEVINE, CYRIL ISAAC
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
Unit Text: 112th Coy
Age: 20
Date of Death: 27/05/1917
Service No: 60996
Additional information: Son of Louis and Barbara Levine, of "Dunrobin," Norwich Rd. Rd., Cromer, Norfolk. Born at Norwich.
Grave/Memorial Reference: Jewish. 46. Cemetery: NORWICH CEMETERY, Norfolk

www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=2803208

Cyril can be seen here
norlink.norfolk.gov.uk/02_Catalogue/02_013_PictureTitleIn...

The accompanying notes read
Private Levine was from Overstrand. He was born at 40, Thorpe Road, Norwich on 7th August 1896, and was educated at Bracondale School, Norwich. He enlisted on 27th April 1916, and died from wounds received in action at the Battle of Arras on 27th May 1917. He is buried at the Jewish Cemetery in Norwich
On Norlink his unit is given as the Essex Regiment.

112th Company Machine Gun Corps was part of 112th Brigade, 37th Division. Engagements at this period include:-
Engagements as part of 37th Division:
Arras, First Battle of the Scarpe, 9-14 April 1917, 3rd Army VI Corps (37th noted for capture of Monchy le Preux)
Arras, Second Battle of the Scarpe, 23-24 April 1917, 3rd Army XVII Corps
Arras, Battle of Arleux, 28-29 April 1917, 3rd Army XVII Corps

www.stevenberry.org/138.html

At the time of the 1901 Census, the family consisted of

Louis Levine, age 34, born Norwich, married, Profession Pawnbroker and dealer in antiquities
Barbara Levine, age 30, born North Shields, Northumberland
Victor Levine, age 4, born Norwich
Cyril Levine, age 4, born Norwich
Henrietta Levine, age 3, born Norwich
Myer Levine, age 1, born Norwich.

The family lived at 66 Prince of Wales Road, Norwich, and had one live in servant, Florence Naylor, (Genes Re-united have transcribed this as Neylor)

An 1894 Commercial Directory of the Jews of the UK lists a Louis Levine at 19, Pottergate Street, Norwich, trading as a Silversmith and Pawnbroker.