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In Memory of the men of Herringswell who gave their lives in the First World War.

Information from Herringswell War Memorial, Herringswell church and the Commonwealth War Graves Commission 

 

Live thou for England. We for England died

(Herringswell War Memorial)


In Memory of

HARRY JOHN ADDISON

Private
13049
2nd Bn., Suffolk Regiment
who died on
Sunday, 11th March 1917. Age 26.

Herringswell church plaque states Harry Addison died in 1915 in Flanders “amongst the first to volunteer, the first to fall”

Additional Information:

Son of John and Elizabeth Addison, of Hall Farm Lodge, Herringswell, Mildenhall, Suffolk.

 

Commemorative Information

Memorial:

YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium

Grave Reference/
Panel Number:

Panel 21

Location:

Ypres (now Ieper) is a town in the Province of West Flanders. The Memorial is situated at the eastern side of the town on the road to Menin and Courtrai, and bears the names of men who were lost without trace during the defence of the Ypres Salient in the First World War.

Historical Information:

A description of the Memorial and an account of the military operations in the Ypres Salient is contained in a separate Introductory part to the Registers.

 

 

 

In Memory of

CHARLES SCOTT

 

Lance Corporal

(Herringswell war memorial inscription as Private)
14458
1st Bn., Suffolk Regiment
who died on
Saturday, 8th May 1915. Age 22.

Additional Information:

Son of the late Thomas and Martha Ann Scott, of Tuddenham St. Mary, Suffolk.

 

Commemorative Information

Memorial:

YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium

Grave Reference/
Panel Number:

Panel 21

Location:

Ypres (now Ieper) is a town in the Province of West Flanders. The Memorial is situated at the eastern side of the town on the road to Menin and Courtrai, and bears the names of men who were lost without trace during the defence of the Ypres Salient in the First World War.

Historical Information:

A description of the Memorial and an account of the military operations in the Ypres Salient is contained in a separate Introductory part to the Registers.

 

 


A HUNT

(Believed to be Alfred Hunt of Herringswell)

Private
16944
2nd Bm, Suffolk Regiment
who died on
Thursday, 30th September 1915.

 

 

Commemorative Information

Cemetery:

PERTH CEMETERY (CHINA WALL), ZILLEBEKE, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium

Grave Reference/
Panel Number:

II. B. 7.

Location:

Perth Cemetery (China Wall) is located 3 km east of Ieper town centre, on the Maaldestedestraat, a road leading from the Meenseweg (N8), connecting Ieper to Menen. From Ieper town centre the Meenseweg is located via Torhoutstraat and right onto Basculestraat. Basculestraat ends at a main cross roads, directly over which begins the Meenseweg. 1.7 km along the Meenseweg at a major roundabout lies the right hand turning onto the Maaldestedestraat. The cemetery itself is located 1 km along the Maaldestedestraat on the left hand side of the road.

Historical Information:

The road to Ypres (now Ieper) goes at first almost due North, past "Gordon House", to "Hellfire Corner", where it crosses the Ypres-Roulers railway line. Near Gordon House this road was crossed by the communication trench known (in full) as the Great Wall of China, which ran East-South-East from the railway line to "Halfway House". Perth Cemetery was begun by French troops in November 1914, and adopted by the 2nd Scottish Rifles in June 1917; it was called Perth (for an unknown reason), China Wall, or Halfway House Cemetery. It was used as a front-line cemetery until October 1917, when it occupied about half of the present Plot I and contained 130 graves; and it was not used again until after the Armistice, when graves were brought in from the battlefields of 1914-1918 around Ypres and from certain smaller cemeteries. The French Plot was then enlarged; but the 158 French graves have now been removed to another cemetery. There are now over 2,500, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site. Of these, nearly half are unidentified and special memorials are erected to 26 soldiers from the United Kingdom and one from Canada, known or believed to be buried among them. Other special memorials bear the names of 91 soldiers from the United Kingdom, 13 from Australia, three from Canada, and one from New Zealand, buried in the cemeteries concentrated here, whose graves could not be found. Five graves in Plot XV, Row B, and Plot XVI, Row A, are identified as a group but not individually, and are marked by headstones bearing the words: "Buried near this spot". The cemetery covers an area of 8,073 square metres and is enclosed by a low brick wall. The following were the more important burial grounds from which British graves were brought to Perth Cemetery: BECELAERE GERMAN CEMETERY No.1 (246th RESERVE INFANTRY REGIMENT), close to Becelaere Church, containing about 500 German and two British burials. BELGIAN CHATEAU CEMETERY, VLAMERTINGHE, in the grounds of a chateau 2 kilometres South-West of Ypres. It contained the graves of 12 soldiers from the United Kingdom, 11 from Canada, and one French soldier, dating from 1914 to 1917. BROODSEINDE GERMAN CEMETERIES, ZONNEBEKE. These contained the graves of 27 British soldiers, who fell mainly in 1914. Broodseinde gave its name to the Battle of the 4th October 1917; and the Memorial of the 7th Division, which fought here in 1914 and 1917, is a little South of the hamlet on the road to Becelaere. The present Broodseinde German Cemetery contains over 5,000 graves gathered from the battlefields. DURHAM CEMETERY, ZILLEBEKE, at the North end of the village, used in December 1915-March 1916. It contained the graves of 52 soldiers from the United Kingdom, 39 of whom belonged to Territorial battalions of the Durham Light Infantry. GARTER POINT CEMETERY, ZONNEBEKE, on the road from Zonnebeke to Westhoek, used in September 1917-April 1918, and containing the graves of 19 soldiers from Australia, eight from the United Kingdom, one from New Zealand, three of unknown units, and one German. GORDON HOUSE CEMETERY NO. 2., ZILLEBEKE, at Gordon House, containing the graves of 30 soldiers from the United Kingdom who fell in 1915 and 1917. HANS KIRCHNER GERMAN CEMETERY, POELCAPELLE, 1.6 kilometres South-East of Poelcapelle village, containing the graves of four soldiers from the United Kingdom who fell in October 1914. HOUTHULST GERMAN CEMETERY, at the East end of the village, containing the graves of about 1,000 German soldiers and one R.F.C. Officer. KEERSELAERE WEST GERMAN CEMETERY, LANGEMARCK, a little West of the Zonnebeke-Langemarck road, containing the graves of 29 soldiers from the United Kingdom who fell mainly in October 1914. KEERSELAERHOEK GERMAN CEMETERY, PASSCHENDAELE, about 180 metres North-East of Tyne Cot Cemetery. It contained the graves of twelve soldiers from the United Kingdom and two from Canada who fell in 1914 and 1915. LANGEMARCK GERMAN CEMETERY No. 7, 1.6 kilometres North-West of the village, containing the graves of four soldiers from the United Kingdom. It was called also by the name of TOTENWALDCHEN. LANGEMARCK GERMAN CEMETERY No. 8, just beyond the railway on the road to Houthulst, containing the graves of 27 soldiers from the United Kingdom who fell in October 1914. L'EBBE FARM CEMETERY, POPERINGHE, about 1.6 kilometres North-West of the town, containing the graves of 21 soldiers from the United Kingdom who fell in 1915 and 1918. MANNEKEN FARM GERMAN CEMETERY No. 3, ZARREN, in the South-East part of Houthulst Forest. It contained the graves of about 700 Germans and those of 13 British soldiers who fell in 1917. NACHTIGALL (or ROSSIGNOL, or VIEUX-CHIEN) GERMAN CEMETERY, GHELUVELT, 800 metres North of the Rossignol Cabaret on the Menin Road, and near the hamlet of Vieux-Chien. It contained the graves of 1,130 German soldiers and those of 69 from the United Kingdom, most of whom fell in September-October 1915. POELCAPELLE GERMAN CEMETERY No. 2, about 1.6 kilometres South-East of the village, containing the graves of 96 soldiers from the United Kingdom and Canada who fell in 1914 and 1915. POELCAPELLE GERMAN CEMETERY No. 3, 800 metres South of the village, containing the graves of 23 soldiers from the United Kingdom and 19 from Canada who fell in 1914 and 1915. RATION DUMP BURIAL GROUND, ZILLEBEKE, on the road a little South of Gordon House. It contained the graves of 28 soldiers from the United Kingdom (mainly London Scottish and Liverpool Scottish) and one from Canada. REUTEL GERMAN CEMETERY, BECELAERE, on the North side of the Reutel-Zwaanhoek road. It contained a very large number of German graves and those of 125 soldiers and airmen from the United Kingdom, two Canadian soldiers and one from New Zealand, who fell in 1914-1917. ST. JOSEPH GERMAN CEMETERY, HOOGHLEDE, on the North side of the hamlet of Geite or St. Joseph, containing the graves of four airmen from the United Kingdom who fell in 1918. ST. JULIEN COMMUNAL CEMETERY, LANGEMARCK, containing the graves of six soldiers of the 14th Canadian Battalion who fell in April 1915. ST. JULIEN EAST GERMAN CEMETERY, LANGEMARCK, on the Langemarck-Zonnebeke road, containing the graves of 65 soldiers from the United Kingdom and 31 from Canada who fell in October 1914 and April 1915. SCHREIBOOM GERMAN CEMETERY, 800 metres East of LANGEMARCK village, containing the graves of 34 soldiers from the United Kingdom who fell in October 1914. TRANSPORT FARM ANNEXE, ZILLEBEKE, 180 metres South of the South-West corner of Zillebeke Lake, and a little East of Railway Dugouts Burial Ground (Transport Farm). It contained the graves of 27 soldiers from the United Kingdom (16 of whom belonged to the 1st Dorsets) who fell in November 1914-June 1915. TRENCH RAILWAY CEMETERY, ZILLEBEKE, on the West side of the hamlet of Verbrandenmolen, containing the graves of 21 soldiers from the United Kingdom who fell in 1915 and 1916. TREURNIET GERMAN CEMETERY, POELCAPELLE, on the road from Poelcapelle village to the railway station, containing the grave of one Canadian soldier. WALLEMOLEN GERMAN CEMETERY, PASSCHENDAELE, 180 metres South of the hamlet of Wallemolen, containing the graves of 20 soldiers from the United Kingdom and 15 from Canada who fell in 1915. WEIDENDREFT GERMAN CEMETERY, LANGEMARCK, at Weidendreft farm, used by the Germans from October 1914 to August 1915, and containing the graves of 98 soldiers from the United Kingdom who fell in the Battles of Ypres, 1914. WESTROOSEBEKE GERMAN CEMETERY No. 2, 366 metres North-East of the village on the road to Hooghlede, containing the grave of one R.A.F. Officer who fell in August 1918.

 

 


In Memory of

ORLANDO MURTON

Private
14740
8th Bn., Suffolk Regiment
who died on
Tuesday, 18th July 1916. Age 25.

Additional Information:

Son of Orlando and Maria Murton, of Church Farm, Herringswell, Ely, Cambs. Enlisted Aug.,

 

Commemorative Information

Memorial:

THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, Somme, France

Grave Reference/
Panel Number:

1914.

Location:

The Thiepval Memorial will be found on the D73, off the main Bapaume to Albert road (D929).

 

 


In Memory of

PERCY ALFRED SPARKES

Private
13167
2nd Bn., Suffolk Regiment
who died on
Thursday, 20th July 1916. Age 21.

Additional Information:

Son of Richard and Jessie Sparkes, of Cavenham, Ely, Cambs.

 

Commemorative Information

Memorial:

THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, Somme, France

Grave Reference/
Panel Number:

Pier and Face 1 C and 2 A

Location:

The Thiepval Memorial will be found on the D73, off the main Bapaume to Albert road (D929).

 

 


In Memory of

Leslie Balance

Captain
Kings Royal Rifles
who died at the Somme on
27th September 1916.

Church plaque states:

Whilst performing a dangerous duty for which he had volunteered.

Buried at Flers.

(Unregistered with the war graves commission.)


In Memory of

HENRY NUNN

Private
29053
1st Bn., Royal Fusiliers
who died on
Saturday, 31st March 1917. Age 38.

Additional Information:

Son of Charles and Elizabeth Nunn, of Herringswell, Suffolk; husband of Mary Eveline Jane Nunn, of Crown House, Highclere, Newbury, Berks.

 

Commemorative Information

Cemetery:

ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY, Pas de Calais, France

Grave Reference/
Panel Number:

XXII. D. 11A.

Location:

Etaples is a town about 27 kilometres south of Boulogne. The Military Cemetery is to the north of the town, on the west side of the road to Boulogne.

Historical Information:

During the 1914-18 war, the neighbourhood of the Cemetery became the scene of immense concentrations of British reinforcement camps and of British hospitals. It was remote from attack, except from aircraft, and it was accessible by railway from either the northern or the southern battlefields. In 1917, 100,000 troops were camped among the sand dunes, and the hospitals (which included eleven General, one Stationary and four Red Cross Hospitals and a Convalescent Depot) could deal with 22,000 wounded or sick. In September 1919, ten months after the Armistice, three hospitals and the Q.M.A.A.C. Convalescent Depot remained. The earliest burial in the Cemetery dates from May 1915. There are now nearly 11,000, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site and over 100 from the 1939-45 War. The cemetery covers an area of 59,049 square metres. The graves lie below three terraces, the midmost of which carries the War Stone and two pylons, and the highest is dominated by the Cross.

 


In Memory of

Edwin FROST

Private
23442
11th Bn., Suffolk Regiment
who died on
Friday, 19th April 1918. Age 27.

Additional Information:

Son of Mrs. M. Frost, of Herringswell, Mildenhall, Suffolk.

 

Commemorative Information

Cemetery:

MONT NOIR MILITARY CEMETERY, ST. JANS-CAPPEL, Nord, France

Grave Reference/
Panel Number:

I. E. 4.

Location:

St. Jans-Cappel is a village 3 kilometres north of Baillieul. Leave St. Jans-Cappel on the D223 heading north. Mont-Noir Military Cemetery is on the southern slope of the hill to the left of the D223. It is reached by a 100 metre track which is unsuitable for private cars.

Historical Information:

The hill was captured by the Cavalry Corps on the 13th October, 1914, and held throughout the Battles of the Lys, 1918. On the North side of the Berthen-Westoutre road, is the Battle Memorial of the 34th Division, marking the final position of Divisional Headquarters in the Battles of the Lys. The Cemetery was made in April-September, 1918, and at the Armistice it contained 91 British graves and 33 French (all of the 26th Dragoons or the 88th Infantry Regiment). It was then enlarged by the concentration of British and French graves (including one of November, 1914) from the battlefields immediately South of it. There are now over 100, 1914-18 and a small number of 1939-45 war casualties commemorated in this site. Of these, 15 from the 1914-18 War are unidentified. The cemetery covers an area of 1,315 square metres and is enclosed by a low rubble wall. WOLFHOEK BRITISH CEMETERY, ST. JANS-CAPPEL, from which the graves of 23 United Kingdom soldiers were transferred to Mont-Noir Military Cemetery, was by the roadside, nearly 200 metres South-West of the hamlet of Wolfhoek. It was made in August-September, 1918, mainly by the 36th (Ulster) Division.

 

 

In Memory of

Gunner Arundel e o Goodwin

Who returned to Herringswell and died from his wounds in 1921.

 

 

 

 

 

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