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When out Sunday morning hoping to capture some fall colors in the fog and rain. Unfortunately my choice of Upper Butte Creek Falls turned up to be past prime with most of the leaves long gone and the remaining past their prime. Seems this season has been a bit fickle. I thought I would still share a couple images of this beautiful fall and wish everyone a happy Waterfall Wednesday!
Skull of a Jackal.
A little morbid perhaps, but what an item of great tonal possibilities this is!
3 Exp HDR, -2,0,+2, Tonemapped PM3, CS3
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There are several of these new housing developments that flank the river Wensum as it flows through the city of Norwich. Up until quite recently, the riverbank and quay sites were dominated by warehouses and stock buildings, most now demolished, hailing back to the industrial revolution.
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An afternoon when a mission was involved. Get out, get some shots off and get home before it chucked it down. Strange light on this one. Although the day was pretty gloomy, an errant ray of sunlight illuminated the flats along this quayside to the extent where they looked radioactive, just as I was crossing the bridge! Which was nice!
I may well post the colour version if/when I get brave enough!
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Southwold pier in Suffolk on the east coast. Early morning shot, just as the sun rose above the horizon.
explored 27.10.09 #355
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The trouble with England is that we seem to get a lot of featureless, grey skies most of the time. Hence "Let's bugger around indoors and see what we can come up with day"
In English below
Droïd conçu par… heuh Joker. Non Pas LE Joker, juste je ne sais pas, je n’ai pas réfléchit jusque-là. Bref, conçut pour infiltrer les rebelles, il est programmé pour se croire humain. Mais voilà, lors d’un affrontement sa qualité d’agent double fut révélé, et lors d’une explosion, la moitié de son exoderme fut détruite révélant la machine dessous. RV a alors buggé gravement. Sa programmation initiale « détruire les rebelle » rentra en conflit avec sa personnalité humaine d’infiltration «soit un rebelle ». Cette électron(ique) libre est inconstant, un instant il vous protégera de sa lame bleu, l’instant d’après vous êtes empalé par la lame rouge (ou coupé en deux avec, selon l’humeur).
Ses deux programmations étant profondément antagonistes, pour faire un choix, il lance son double sabre en l’air puis l’allume… La couleur décidant de son alignement. Et quand les deux lames sont allumées, tout peut arriver…
PS : en tant que Rebelle, c’était un pote du Bat-Baron.
Droid designed by... uh Joker. No Not THE Joker, just I don't know, I haven't thought this far. Anyway, designed to infiltrate the rebels, he's programmed to think he's human. But then, during a confrontation, his double agent quality was revealed, and during an explosion, half of his exoderm was destroyed, revealing the machine underneath. RV then bugged badly. His initial programming "destroy the rebels" conflicted with his human infiltration personality "be a rebel". This loose cannon is fickle, one moment it will protect you with its blue blade, the next moment you are impaled by the red blade (or cut in half with it, depending on his binary mood).
his two programs being deeply antagonistic, to make a choice, he throws his double saber in the air and then lights it... The color deciding its alignment. And when both blades are lit, anything can happen...
PS: as a Rebel, he was a friend of the Bat-Baron.
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The Cathedral Church of St John the Baptist is the Roman Catholic cathedral of the city of Norwich, Norfolk, England, UK.
It is one of two cathedrals in the city of Norwich, and should not be confused with the Church of England Norwich Cathedral, completed in the Norman style in 1145.
The Cathedral, located on Earlham Road, was constructed between 1882 and 1910 to designs by George Gilbert Scott, Jr. as a parish church dedicated to John the Baptist. The funds for its construction were provided by Henry Fitzalan-Howard, 15th Duke of Norfolk. In 1976 it was consecrated as the cathedral church for the newly erected Diocese of East Anglia and the seat of the Bishop of East Anglia.
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This image is a re-working of a photo that I uploaded a little while back entitled eaton park 1.
Historical note: Eaton Park, Norwich, Norfolk, UK
Despite the availability of land at that time, it was recognised that an area for recreational purposes was needed. £900 was raised for the piece of land which was enclosed and which we now recognise as Eaton Park. From 1924, Blue Bell Road, then a lane linking Eaton and Earlham, was widened and houses were built north of the park area. For three and a half years over a hundred men were employed to build the bandstand, pavilions, and model boat and lily ponds. Tennis courts (there were over 40), cricket squares, bowling greens, other sports' and leisure areas and gardens were created. In 1928 the Park was officially opened by the then Prince of Wales.
In 1998 Eaton Park was one of three parks which benefited from an extensive refurbishment programme funded by a Heritage Lottery grant of £4.2m. Although Norwich City Council invests money in the parks, it could not have afforded the work required to restore the buildings. Plenty of seating was provided for park visitors and the garden is now wheelchair-accessible.
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From; www.friendsofeatonpark.co.uk/history.html
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Another angle of the south transept of Norwich Cathedral (CofE) showing more detail in the clock. I felt that I needed to upload the colour version of this, as it displays the subtle colours and craftsmanship of the clock itself.
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The Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts is an art gallery and museum located on the campus of the University of East Anglia, Norwich in the UK. It is housed in one of the first major public buildings to be designed by Norman Foster.
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In 1973 Sir Robert and Lady Lisa Sainsbury donated to the university their collection of over 300 artworks and objects, which they had been accumulating since the 1930s. The collection has since increased in size to several thousand works spanning over 5000 years of human endeavor, including pieces by Jacob Epstein, Henry Moore (numerous sculptures can be found dotted around the grounds of the university), Alberto Giacometti, Francis Bacon and John Davies, alongside art from Africa (including a 'Fang Reliquary Head' from Gabon and the Nigerian 'Head of an Oba'), Asia, North and South America, the Pacific region, medieval Europe and the ancient Mediterranean.
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The Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts building was opened in 1978. It was designed between 1974 and 1976 by the then relatively unknown architect Norman Foster (now Lord Foster). It is situated on the western edge of the University campus, beside the River Yare, and also houses the School of World Art Studies and Museology.
The main building is sited on sloping, turfed ground, and consists of a large cuboid, clad steel structure. One face is almost entirely glazed, with the prefabricated skeleton clearly visible. Internally, the museum gives the impression of being one vast open space, lacking any internal divisions to interfere with the interplay of natural and artificial light. Services, lighting, toilets and maintenance access are housed in triangular towers and trusses, and between the external cladding and internal aluminium louvres.
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Stow Mill, Paston, Mundesley, Norfolk
The tarred brick tower mill at Stow Hill situated on the west side of the coast road from Mundesley to Paston was built as a flour mill between 1825 and 1827 by James Gaze.
The land on which the mill was built had been acquired by Thomas Gaze (1), gentleman of Paston Hall from a John Taylor, yeoman, under an Indenture of Ffeofment dated 28th January 1778 – a method of conveyance abolished in 1845.
Thomas Gaze died in 1805 and the land passed to his son, Thomas Gaze (2), and then to his son James. In 1827 James Gaze, “being desirous of making provision for his said son in order to advance and prefer him in the world” conveyed to his eldest son, Thomas Pleasants Gaze for the nominal consideration of ten shillings of lawful British money….
Source: www.stowmill.co.uk/history.html
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Bucket Man
1974
John Davies
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Sainsbury Centre for Visual Art. Norwich. UK
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I feel an explanation is needed here. This regal looking chap is a sculpture by John Davies. As realistic as he may appear (even up close), he is not flesh and blood! In a strange kind of way, the convincing appearance and structure of this piece has led me to take more interest in the possibilities of portrait photography.
Good thing or bad thing? I'm not sure yet............
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PA300091 sepia
Excerpt from THE STORY OF THE NATIONS: THE MOORS IN SPAIN BY STANLEY LANE-POOLE, B.A., M.R.A.S. WITH THE COLLABORATION OF ARTHUR GILMAN, M.A. (NEW YORK:
G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS; LONDON: T. FISHER UNWIN, 1903), public domain:
XIII. THE FALL OF GRANADA.
THE capture of Boabdil by the Christian sovereigns was a fatal blow to the Moorish power. The loss of the prince himself was the smallest part of the misfortune. Boabdil, though he could show true Moorish courage in the battle-field, was a weak and vacillating man, and was perpetually oppressed by the conviction that destiny was against him. He was known as Ez-Zogoiby, "the Unlucky;" and he was ever lamenting his evil star, against which he felt it was useless to struggle. "Verily," he would exclaim, after every reverse, "it was written in the book of fate that I should be unlucky, and that the kingdom should come to an end under my rule!" Boabdil could easily be spared; but innocuous as he was in himself, he might become dangerous in the hands of a clever adversary; and events showed that Boabdil's subjection to Ferdinand contributed as much as any other cause to the overthrow of the Moorish power in Andalusia. The Catholic sovereigns received him with honour at Cordova, and, by friendly persuasion and arguments drawn from his own desperate situation and the strongly contrasted successes of the Christians, they induced him to become their instrument and vassal.
As soon as they felt that they had completely mastered their tool, the politic king and queen suffered him to return to Granada, where his father, Abu-l-Hasan, once more held the fortress of the Alhambra. Favoured by his old supporters in the Albaycin quarter of the city, Boabdil managed to effect an entrance, and to seize the citadel or keep called Alcazaba, whence he carried on a guerilla warfare with his father in the opposite fort. The quarrel was further embittered by the rivalry between the wives of Abu-l-Hasan. Ayesha, the mother of Boabdil, was intensely jealous of a Christian lady, Zoraya, whom Abu-l-Hasan loved far beyond his other wives; and the chief courtiers took up the cause of either queen. Thus arose the celebrated antagonism between the Zegris, a Berber tribe from Aragon, who supported Ayesha, and the Abencerrages, or Beny-Serrāj, an old Cordovan family, which ended in the celebrated massacre of the Abencerrages in the Palace of Alhambra, though whether Boabdil was the author of this butchery is still matter of doubt. Supported by the Zegris, Boabdil for some time held his ground in the citadel. Old Abu-l-Hasan was too strong for him, however, and the son was soon compelled to take refuge at Almeria. Henceforward there were always two kings of Granada: Boabdil, on the one hand, always unlucky, whether in policy or battle, and despised by good Moors as the vassal of the common enemy; on the other, Abu-l-Hasan, or rather his brother Ez-Zaghal, "the Valiant," for the old king did not long survive the misfortunes which his son's rebellion had brought upon the kingdom. He lost his sight, and soon afterwards died, not without suspicion of foul play.
In Ez-Zaghal we see the last great Moorish King of Andalusia. He was a gallant warrior, a firm ruler, and a resolute opponent of the Christians. Had he been untrammelled by his nephew, Granada might have remained in the hands of the Moors during his life, though nothing could have prevented the final triumph of the Christians. Instead of delaying that victory, however, the kings of Granada did their best to further and promote it by their internal disputes. Quem Deus vult perdere, prius dementat: when the gods have decreed that a king must fall, they fill him first with folly. Such a suicidal mania now invaded the minds of the rulers of Granada; at a time when every man they could gather together was needed to repel the invasion of the Christians, they wasted their strength in ruinous struggles with each other, and one would even intercept the other's army when it was on the march against the common enemy. The people of Granada, divided into various factions, aided and abetted the jealousy of their sovereigns: always fickle and prone to any change, good or bad, the Granadinos loved nothing better than to set up and put down kings. So long as a ruler was fortunate in war, and brought back rich spoils from the territories of the "infidels," they were well pleased to submit to his sway; but the moment he failed, they shut the gates in his face and shouted, Long live the other!—who might be Boabdil or Ez-Zaghal, or any one else who happened for the moment to possess Granada's changeable affections.
While Boabdil the Unlucky was doing his best to foil the efforts of his brave uncle Ez-Zaghal, the Christians were gradually narrowing the circle that they had drawn round the doomed kingdom. City after city fell into their hands. Alora and other forts were taken in 1484, with the aid of Ferdinand's heavy "lombards"—a new and destructive form of artillery. Coin, Cartama, Ronda, followed in the next year, not without some vigorous reprisals on the part of Ez-Zaghal, who caught the knights of Calatrava in an ambush, and effected a terrible slaughter. Still the course of Christian conquest steadily continued. Loxa fell in 1486, when an English Earl, Lord Scales, with a company of English archers, led the attack. Illora and Moclin succumbed; "the right eye of Granada is extinguished," cried the Moors in consternation; "the Catholic sovereigns have clipped the right wing of the Moorish vulture," was the Christian comment. The western part of the kingdom had, indeed, been absorbed by Ferdinand and his intrepid consort. The pomegranate (granada) was being devoured grain by grain. Ez-Zaghal became unpopular with the people, who could not brook disappointment, and they received Boabdil once more into their city. He found it hard work to maintain his foothold there against his uncle; but with the help of some troops furnished by the Christians he contrived to stand awhile at bay. Just then Ferdinand was laying siege to Velez, near Malaga, and the news roused the strongest feeling of indignation in Granada; for Malaga was the second city of the kingdom. Its site, shut in by mountains and the sea, its vineyards and orchards, gardens and pastures, and its fine defensive works, made it the right hand of the Moslem kingdom. If Malaga fell, then the Alhambra must also pass into the hands of the "eaters of swineflesh." Moved by the general emotion, and ever ready to break lance with the invader, Ez-Zaghal boldly led his troops to the relief of Velez. He knew that his treacherous nephew was in Granada, ready to take advantage of his absence to recover his old supremacy; but Ez-Zaghal was rightly called the Valiant; he put aside all thoughts of self, and set out to save Malaga. But he had to deal with a shrewd opponent; and while he took his measures for a combined attack from the besieged and the relieving army, Ferdinand intercepted his messages and countermined his plans. One night the people of Velez saw the hosts of Ez-Zaghal gathered in long array upon the neighbouring heights; the next morning not a soul remained; the night attack had failed, and the relieving army had melted like the mist before the resolute onslaught of the Marquess of Cadiz. When the dejected stragglers began to steal sadly into the gates of Granada, the populace easily threw off their old allegiance, and breaking into furious indignation against Ez-Zaghal, denounced him as a traitor, and proclaimed Boabdil king in his stead. As Ez-Zaghal drew near to the gates of Granada with the remnant of his army, he found them closed in his face, and looking up he saw the standard of Boabdil floating above the towers of the Alhambra. His city, always intolerant of failure, had shut its heart against him in his day of trouble, so he turned away and established his court at Guadix.
The siege of Malaga itself was now begun, but the strength of its defences rendered it a formidable obstacle. It was surrounded by mountains, defended by stout walls, overshadowed by the citadel and the still loftier Gibralfaro, or "Hill of the Beacon," whence its garrison could pour down missiles upon the Christians in the plain. Moreover, the defence was led by Ez-Zegry, an heroic Moor, who had been Alcayde of Ronda and could not forgive the Christians for wrenching that famous rocky fortress from him, and who now inspired the citizens and his following of African troops with a spirit of daring and endurance which the Catholic sovereigns in vain tried to subdue. Commanding the Gibralfaro, he was able to defend the city in spite of the peaceful inclinations of its trading classes. When the king attempted to bribe him, he dismissed the messenger with courteous disdain; and when the city was summoned to surrender, and the merchants eagerly acquiesced, Ez-Zegry said: "I was set here not to surrender but to defend." Ferdinand concentrated his attack upon the Gibralfaro; his terrible cannon, known as the "Seven Sisters of Ximenes," wrapped the castle in smoke and flame; night and day the artillery blazed to and fro. The Christians attempted to take the place by assault, but Ez-Zegry and his undaunted followers poured boiling pitch and rosin upon the assailants, hurled huge stones upon their heads as they climbed the ladders, and transfixed them with well-aimed arrows from the tower above, till the storming party were compelled to retire with heavy loss. Mines were tried with better success, and some of the fortifications were blown up with gunpowder, for the first time in Spanish history; but still the garrison held out. The chivalry of Spain was now gathered about the walls of Malaga; Queen Isabella herself came, and her presence infused a fresh spirit of enthusiasm into her knights and soldiers. Wooden towers were brought to bear upon the battlements; a testudo of shields was used as cover for the men who undermined the walls; but Ez-Zegry was still unsubdued. At last there appeared a worse enemy than cannon and gunpowder: famine began to distress the people of Malaga, and they were more inclined now to listen to the pacific policy of the traders than to the bold counsels of the commander. Help from without was not to be expected. Ez-Zaghal had, indeed, once more made an effort to save the besieged city. He had gathered together what was left of his army and gone forth from Guadix to succour Malaga; but his ill-starred nephew again proved his title to the name "Unlucky," for in a fit of insensate jealousy he ordered out the troops of Granada, intercepted Ez-Zaghal's small force as it was on its way to Malaga, and dispersed it. Ez-Zegry's last sally was repulsed with terrible slaughter; the people were starving, and mothers cast their infants before the governor's horse, lamenting that they had no more food and could not bear to hear their children's cries. The city at last surrendered, and Ez-Zegry, who still held out in the Gibralfaro, was forced by his soldiers to open the gates, and was rewarded for his heroism by being cast into a dungeon, never to be heard of again.
The long siege was over; the famished people fought with one another to buy food from the Christians. The African garrison, who still kept their proud look, though worn and enfeebled with their long struggle and privations, were condemned to slavery; the rest of the inhabitants were permitted to ransom themselves, but on these insidious terms—that all their goods should at once be paid over to the king as part payment, and that if after eight months the rest were not forthcoming, they should all be made slaves. They were numbered and searched, and then sent forth. "Then might be seen old men and helpless women and tender maidens, some of high birth and gentle condition, passing through the streets, heavily burdened, towards the Alcazaba. As they left their homes they smote their breasts, and wrung their hands, and raised their weeping eyes to heaven in anguish; and this is recorded as their plaint: O Malaga! city so renowned and beautiful, where now is the strength of thy castle, where the grandeur of thy towers? Of what avail have been thy mighty walls for the protection of thy children?... They will bewail each other in foreign lands; but their lamentations will be the scoff of the stranger."
A Carpenter - also on Abbey Roll of Honour
No obvious matches on CWGC
Choices from the 1901 Census include am Albert, born circa 1878 Wymondham and now resident Swainsthorpe as a Labourer in Garden, and an Arthur born circa 1884 and now resident Spooner Row as an Ordinary Agricultural Labourer.
Updated The Military Genealogy site lists an Arthur Edward, born Sutton, Wymondham, enlisted Wymondham.
Armed with this information and checking the CWGC database again, produces this match.
Name: CARPENTER, ARTHUR E.
Rank: Private
Regiment: East Yorkshire Regiment
Unit Text: 12th Bn.
Age: 34
Date of Death: 13/11/1916
Service No: 28210
Additional information: Son of John and Maria Carpenter, of Spooner Row, Wymondham, Norfolk.
Grave/Memorial Reference: Pier and Face 2 C.
Memorial: THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
CWGC: www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?cas ualty=1542239
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W Carpenter - also on Abbey Roll of Honour
No obvious matches on CWGC
No match on Norlink
The 1901 Census has a Walter Carpenter, aged 21, resident at “Chain Entry” Wymondham in the household of his parents, Arthur, (aged 48, Teamster on Farm), and Maria, (aged 50), as well as siblings Sydney, (aged 16) and Maud, (aged 14).
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S Catlyn - also on Abbey Roll of Honour
Name: CATLYN, SIDNEY
Rank: Private
Regiment: York and Lancaster Regiment Unit Text: 12th Bn.
Age: 21 Date of Death: 01/10/1917 Service No: 235615
Additional information: Son of Leonard James Catlyn, of Church St., Wymondham, Norfolk.
Grave/Memorial Reference: I. E. 6. Cemetery: ROCLINCOURT MILITARY CEMETERY
www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=525727
The 1901 Census has Sidney Catlyn, (aged 5) living in the household of his parents at 91 Junction Road, Norwich, although he had been born in Wymondham. His parents were Leonard, (aged 31, a General Carter) and Jane, (aged 31) and sister Laura, (aged 3)/ Also living in the house was Sidney’s uncle, (George, his fathers brother and also a General Carter).
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B Chamberlin - also on Abbey Roll of Honour
Possibly
Name: CHAMBERLIN, BEN
Rank: Private
Regiment: Northumberland Fusiliers Unit Text: 1st/4th Bn.
Date of Death: 15/09/1916 Service No: 9018
Grave/Memorial Reference: Pier and Face 10 B 11 B and 12 B. Memorial: THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=1542979
The 1901 Census has Ben Chamberlin, (aged 3) resident at “Plainwood” hethersett, the residence of his parents, William, (aged 40, a G E R Plate Labourer), and Ann Maria, (aged 36). Both parents were from Wymondham, and their older children, William, (aged 15), Lily, (aged 17 and a housemaid domestic) and Charles, (aged 12) were all born there as well. Further siblings, born Hethersett, are Dorothy, (aged 5), Emma, (aged 7), Ernest, (aged 10)and Harry, (aged 9).
15th September 1916.
The 4th Bn were faced with an unenviable task. Earlier fighting had left a 'dog-leg' in the front line, therefore the 4th Bns' assembly (Eye) trench was three hundred yards further forward than those of the 47th Divn on the right flank. If the fusiliers did not delay their advance until the 47th Divn were alongside they would be totally exposed to enfilade fire from enemy machine guns sited in the strongpoint on the ridge top at the north west corner of High Wood (Bois De Foureaux). From this strongpoint it was possible for the enemy to rake the ground between the wood and Martinpuich to the west. The strongpoint had been repeatedly attacked in the weeks preceding, but with no success. However, if High Wood was outflanked by the 4th Bn, there was the possibility of capturing trenches eight hundred yards to the rear of the wood and cutting off the enemy units in it. The decision was taken for the 4th Bn to advance at zero hour
4th Bn HQ telephoned Bde HQ at 7.14am to report that the first objective had been 'made good'. However, the 4th and 7th Bns had just begun to dig in at the first objective when they came under heavy machine gun and rifle fire from the direction of High Wood. The fusiliers took shelter until it was time to advance on the second objective at 7.20am.
At 7.27am Bde HQ received a report from the 4th Bn stating that the advance to the 2nd objective had begun in good order and that the enemy barrage was falling almost entirely in front of the 1st objective.
The second objective was captured and fusiliers of the 4th Bn entered the Starfish Line, but enemy fire from both flanks inflicted very heavy casualties on them. Wiith the 47th Divn held up in High Wood and unable to provide any support on the right flank, the 4th Bn were forced to fall back to Hook Trench. The severe difficulties experienced by the 47th Divn, in High Wood, meant that the right flank of the 4th Bn was now dangerously exposed and would had to be carefully guarded from attack. Hook Trench and Bethel Sap were strengthened and made secure.
At 9.25am the 4th Bn reported that the enemy had launched a bombing attack on Bethel Sap from the direction of High Wood, this was quickly followed by a request for bombers to be sent forward to assist with the defence
Casualties
The 4th Bn sent twenty-two officers and six hundred and ninety-five men into action that morning. The subsequent roll call revealed that 10 officers and 110 men had been killed, 7 officers and 229 men wounded and 143 were missing.
Records show that at least 180 fusiliers from the 4th Bn were actually killed in action or died of wounds during the Battle of Flers-Courcellette.
www.4thbnnf.com/35_160915_flerscourcelette.html
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F Chamberlain - also on Abbey Roll of Honour
No obvious matches on CWGC
No match on Norlink
Most likely matches from the 1901 Census are a Frederick (aged 31 and a Bricklayers Labourer), or his son, another Frederick, (aged 9). The family were resident at White Horse Street.
Updated F Chamberlain
The SDGW database has a Frank Ernest Chamberlain born Wymondham, enlisted Wymondham, who was soldier 20443, Essex Regiment.
That soldier on the CWGC database is
Name: CHAMBERLAIN, FRANK ERNEST
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Essex Regiment
Unit Text: 1st Bn.
Date of Death: 06/08/1915
Service No: 20443
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 144 to 150 or 229 to 233.
Memorial: HELLES MEMORIAL
CWGC: www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?cas ualty=697018
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J S Childerhouse - also on Abbey Roll of Honour
Name: CHILDERHOUSE, JOHN STEVEN
Rank: Private
Regiment: Coldstream Guards Unit Text: 1st Bn. Age: 31
Date of Death: 28/09/1915 Service No: 7870
Additional information: Son of S. Childerhouse, of London Rd., Wymondham, Norfolk.
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 7 and 8. Memorial: LOOS MEMORIAL
www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=729724
The 1901 Census has John Childerhouse, (aged 16, a bricklayers labourer), living at Friarscroft Lane with his parents Stephen Childerhouse, (aged 44, a Railway Labourer) and Laura, (aged 43) and siblings Charles, (aged 12), Gladys (aged 4), and Violet (aged 18, a horse hair weaver).
Late in the afternoon of the 27th September, the Guards brigade, with the 1st Coldstream in reserve, were thrown into the battle for the key Hill 70, during the Battle of Loos. With the Irish and Scots Guards being driven back, the Coldstreams were unleashed and joining with the remnants of the other units, pushed on and took the hill. In two days the Guards Brigade had lost 42 officers and 1266 men. By the night of the 27th/28th the front line was stabilising, but this only meant that the German artillery could concentrate their fire on the new allied positions.
A follow up attack by the 1st led to the Coldstream’s, already at half strength, being almost annihilated on the 28th.
books.google.co.uk/books?id=OClz6xxwgCUC&pg=PA30&...
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W Chilvers - also on Abbey Roll of Honour
No obvious matches on CWGC
Possible match on Norlink
norlink.norfolk.gov.uk/02_Catalogue/02_013_PictureTitleIn...
Norlink notes
Born at Carleton Rode, 31st May 1898, educated at Bunwell council school. He enlisted 2nd February 1917 and was reported killed in action 8th August 1918. His unit is given as the 7 RWS
Name: CHILVERS, WESLEY H. W. EWART GLADSTONE
Rank: Private
Regiment: The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment) Unit Text: 7th Bn.
Age: 20 Date of Death: 08/08/1918 Service No: 205381
Additional information: Son of John and Alice Chilvers, of North St., Carleton Rode, Attleborough, Norfolk.
Grave/Memorial Reference: I. B. 3. Cemetery: BEACON CEMETERY, SAILLY-LAURETTE
www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=185587
At the time of the 1901 Census, Wesley Chilvers was living at Banwell Street, Carleton Rode with his parents. There are no obvious other matches,
www.chilversgenealogy.co.uk/rollhon.htm
freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~chilvers/Carle...
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P Clabburn - also on Abbey Roll of Honour
Name: CLABBURN, PERCY
Rank: Sergeant
Regiment: Canadian Infantry Unit Text: 60th Bn.
Age: 26 Date of Death: 26/11/1916 Service No: 458165
Additional information: Son of George and Martha Clabburn, of Wymondham, Norfolk, England.
Grave/Memorial Reference: III. J. 9. Cemetery: ECOIVRES MILITARY CEMETERY, MONT-ST. ELOI
www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=64971
At the 1901 Census, Percy, aged 10, was resident on Market Street with his parents George, (aged 41, an Innkeeper) and Martha, (aged 42) as well as siblings, Arthur, (aged 16, Factory Brush?), Henry, (aged 15, Factory Brush?), Ida, (aged 5), and Winifred, (aged 13)
Percys Canadian attestation (enlistment) forms can be seen here.
collectionscanada.ca/databases/cef/001042-119.02-e.php?im...
collectionscanada.ca/databases/cef/001042-119.02-e.php?im...
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E Claxton - also on Abbey Roll of Honour
Name: CLAXTON, ERNEST SIDNEY
Rank: Private
Regiment: Essex Regiment Unit Text: 3rd Bn.
Date of Death: 27/10/1918 Service No: 20924
Additional information: Husband of Eunice Eliza Claxton, of Friars Croft Lane, Wymondham.
Grave/Memorial Reference: 2. 95. Cemetery: WYMONDHAM CEMETERY
www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=2802744
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T Clements - also on Abbey Roll of Honour
Name: CLEMENTS, THOMAS SAMUEL
Rank: Private
Regiment: Norfolk Regiment Unit Text: 8th Bn.
Age: 37 Date of Death: 24/10/1917 Service No: 18619
Additional information: Son of Elizabeth Mary and the late George Samuel Clements, of Wymondham, Norfolk.
Grave/Memorial Reference: XXX. G. 6A. Cemetery: ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY
www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=499975
Thomas was 19 and a Boot Riveter living on Cock Street, Wymondham with his widowed mother Elizabeth, aged 51 and siblings:-
Ethel........Aged 14......Brush Maker
George......Aged 21.......Blake Machine Operator
John........Aged 16.......Grocers Porter
Julia.......Aged 22.......Laundress
May.........Aged 17.......Brush Maker
Edith (Cook)Aged 29.......Boot Machinist
As well as nieces Elizabeth Cook, (aged 11) and Elsie Cook, (aged 1)
October 1917
The first three weeks of October were spent on the west bank of the Yser canal, and partly in training for the attack of October 22nd in the Poelcappelle neighbourhood. On the 20th the battalion was in Cane trench ready for the forthcoming attack "
It then goes on to decribe the attack which went in on around 5.50am of the 22nd. The Norfolks went first, leapt frogged by the 10th Essex. Despite the mud all the objectives were achieved.
"The triumphant Essex and Norfolks...........tramped back to hear the whole division ...and General Maxse.... singing their paise. "
Losses were heavy and this was destined to be the Battalions last great action before it's dissolution. Being split up in the new year to go to the 7th and 9th Norfolks
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Although I cannot be certain, after such an attack there would no doubt have been many casualties who would subsequently have died of their wounds. Etaples was not only a training centre but also had several field hospitals nearby and the fatalities from these were buried in the Etaples cemetery.
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A Coldham - also on Abbey Roll of Honour
Name: COLDHAM, ALEXANDER
Rank: Private
Regiment: Machine Gun Corps (Infantry) Unit Text: 117th Coy.
Age: 23 Date of Death: 21/10/1917 Service No: 107254
Additional information: Son of Mr. and Mrs. H. Coldham, of Chapel Lane, Wymondham, Norfolk.
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 154 to 159 and 163A. Memorial: TYNE COT MEMORIAL
www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=840831
At the time of the 1901 Census, Alexander, (aged 6) was living on Cock Street, Wymondham with his parents Horace, (aged 32 and a Groom &Gardener) and Gertrude (aged 31) and siblings Ernest, (aged 4), Ethel, (under 1)and Frederick, (aged 1)
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A J Cooke
No obvious matches on CWGC
No match on Norlink
No obvious match on the 1901 Census.
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G R Cooke
No obvious matches on CWGC
No match on Norlink
No obvious match on the 1901 Census.
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W Cowles - also on Abbey Roll of Honour
No obvious matches on CWGC
No match on Norlink
No obvious match on the 1901 Census.
On various websites there are references to a Walter Cowles born Wymondham 1878, but as he then goes on to run a small drapers shop in the 1920’s, he would appear not to be our man.
Updated see comments 1& 2 below
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D Cross - also on Abbey Roll of Honour
Most likely
Name: CROSS, DONALD STUART
Rank: Private
Regiment: Norfolk Regiment Unit Text: 1st/4th Bn.
Date of Death: 14/08/1915 Service No: 2052
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 42 to 44. Memorial: HELLES MEMORIAL
www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=694710
No obvious match on the 1901 Census.
The diary of Captain Montgomerie, the acting C.O of the 1st/4th notes on this day only that:-
14th. - Our men were now getting exhausted from hard work and lack of food. We sent up some food to them in the early morning. They were well off for water as they had four wells, but they ran considerable risk in getting it.
user.online.be/~snelders/sand.htm
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J B Cross - also on Abbey Roll of Honour
Name: CROSS, JOHN BUCKINGHAM
Rank: Company Quartermaster Serjeant
Regiment: Norfolk Regiment Unit Text: 4th Bn.
Age: 51 Date of Death: 01/11/1915 Service No: 2214
Additional information: Son of the late Robert and Sarah Cross, of Wymondham; husband of Laura Cross, of "Fernlea," Norwich Rd., Wymondham, Norfolk.
Grave/Memorial Reference: D. I. 3. Cemetery: PIETA MILITARY CEMETERY
www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=115074
The Cemetery is located in Triq Id-Duluri (Our Lady of Sorrows Street), 2 kilometres south-west of Valletta on the road to Sliema. On the edge of the Gwardamanga district, the entrance is on Triq II-Principessa Melita, leading to Triq Tal-Pieta and Msida Sea Front and Creek. Historical Information: From the spring of 1915, the hospitals and convalescent depots established on the islands of Malta and Gozo dealt with over 135,000 sick and wounded, chiefly from the campaigns in Gallipoli and Salonika, although increased submarine activity in the Mediterranean meant that fewer hospital ships were sent to the island from May 1917
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C W Daniels - also on Abbey Roll of Honour
Possibly
Name: DANIELS, CECIL WILLIAM
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Regiment: Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment) Age: 25 Date of Death: 04/11/1918
Grave/Memorial Reference: 5. N.G. 614. Cemetery: NORWICH CEMETERY, Norfolk
www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=2803104
No match on Norlink
No obvious match on the 1901 Census.
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S Doubleday - also on Abbey Roll of Honour
Probably
Name: DOUBLEDAY, SAMUEL
Rank: Private
Regiment: Royal Fusiliers Unit Text: 13th Bn.
Date of Death: 11/04/1917 Service No: 11137
Grave/Memorial Reference: Bay 3. Memorial: ARRAS MEMORIAL
www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=1540460
No match in Norlink
The 1901 Census has a Samuel Doubleday, (aged 8) living at Spooner Row with his parents Charles, (aged 40, a farmer) and Lavinia (aged 30), as well as siblings Charles, (aged 11) and Rosa, (aged 14), and his uncle, John Wharton, aged 18.
Updated The Military Genealogy site confirms this Samuel was born Sutton and resident Wymondham.
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H Dove - also on Abbey Roll of Honour
No obvious matches on CWGC
No match on Norlink
While there is no obvious match on the 1901 Census, there is a John Dove, aged 11, who is actually listed as John H C Dove. John was born at Wymondham, and at the time of the census was living in Norwich Road, Wymondham with his parents, John, (aged 34, occupation indecipherable) and Eliza A. (aged 33) as well as siblings George, (aged 4), Gladys C C, (aged 1), Hannah, (aged 8) Thomas J (aged 14) and a Robert Thompson, aged 15 who is also listed as a son of John senior.
That raises the possibility that this may relate:-
Name: DOVE, JOHN H. C.
Rank: Gunner
Regiment/Service: Royal Horse Artillery Unit Text: "W" Bty.
Date of Death: 01/10/1915 Service No: 55578
Memorial: DELHI 1914-1918 WAR MEMORIAL
www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=1451124
Updated The Military Genealogy site Same confirms that John H C Dove was born Wymondham.
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D Dunham - also on Abbey Roll of Honour
Probably
Name: DUNHAM, DOUGLAS ALFRED
Rank: Rifleman
Regiment: Rifle Brigade Unit Text: 7th Bn.
Date of Death: 18/08/1916 Service No: 1196
Grave/Memorial Reference: Pier and Face 16 B and 16 C. Memorial: THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=755319
There are no matches on the 1901 Census for a Douglas Dunham.
Updated The Military Genealogy site confirms that Douglas Arthur Dunham was born Wymondham.
Updated November 2012 The 22 year old Douglas Alfred, born "Weymondham, Norfolk" was recorded serving overseas as a Rifleman in the 4th Battalion, Rifle Brigade, located at The Citadel, Cairo, Egypt.
The baptism of a Douglas Arthur, (date of birth not recorded), took place at the church of The Virgin Mary and St Thomas a'Beckett, Wymondham on the 4th September 1887.Parents were Arthur William, a Horse Breaker, and Jessie. The family lived at North Field, Wymondham.
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F G Eastoll - also on Abbey Roll of Honour (F Eastoll)
Name: EASTOLL, FREDERICK GEORGE
Rank: Private
Regiment: Norfolk Regiment Unit Text: 1st Bn.
Age: 26 Date of Death: 27/07/1916 Service No: 3/10841
Additional information: Husband of the late Alice Eastoll.
Grave/Memorial Reference: Pier and Face 1 C and 1 D. Memorial: THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=752711
The 1901 Census has a Fredrick Eastoll, aged 9 living at Silver Street, Besthorpe, in the household of his grandfather, Robert, (aged 54, an agricultural labourer) and grandmother, Sarah, (aged 50), as well as their children:=
George.............Age 15.............Bricklayers Labourer
Geraldine..........Age 17.............Housemaid Domestic
Philip.............Age 12
For a report on the action in which Frederick died see here:-
www.bedfordregiment.org.uk/1stbtn/1stbtn1916appendices.html
This was another costly day for the 1st Norfolk’s - a trawl of the CWGC web-sites reveals 86 fatalities on this day.
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E R Edwards - also on Abbey Roll of Honour
Name: EDWARDS, ERNEST RICHARD
Rank: Private
Regiment: Essex Regiment Unit Text: 10th Bn.
Age: 22 Date of Death: 22/10/1917 Service No: 203039
Additional information: Son of W. and Ruth Edwards, of Bellrope Lane, Wymondham, Norfolk.
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 98 to 99. Memorial: TYNE COT MEMORIAL
www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=1631000
The 1901 Census has two Ernest’s in Wymondham, but one is shown as Ernest R, and lived on Bellrope Lane, Wymondham. His parents were William R, (age 29, a masons carter) and Ruth E. (aged 27), as well as brother leslie G. (aged 3).
The final capture of Poelcapelle and Meunier House by the 10th Essex and a Norfolk Battalion took place on 22nd October 1917
1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=107...
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The 10th Essex suffered 48 fatalities on this day
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B W Elvin - also on Abbey Roll of Honour
Name: ELVIN, BERNARD WILLIAM
Rank: Private
Regiment: Northamptonshire Regiment Unit Text: 1st Bn.
Age: 20 Date of Death: 03/04/1916 Service No: 17445
Additional information: Son of Charles and Eliza Alice Elvin, of 6, Cemetery Rd., Wymondham, Norfolk.
Grave/Memorial Reference: III. J. 20. Cemetery: ST. PATRICK'S CEMETERY, LOOS
www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=563026
No match on Norlink
The 1901 Census has a William B. aged 4 living at The Lizard, Wymondham with his parents, Charles, (aged 32, an Assurance Agent), and mother Eliza A. (aged 29), along with siblings Alice M. (aged 8), and Gertrude M. (aged 7). There are two Eliza Elvin’s living at The Lizard - see John Elvin below.
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G W Elvin - also on Abbey Roll of Honour
Name: ELVIN, GEORGE WILLIAM
Rank: Private
Regiment: Border Regiment Unit Text: "B" Coy. 3rd Bn.
Age: 19 Date of Death: 27/10/1916 Service No: 23185
Additional information: Son of Robert and Laura Elvin, of The Lizard, Wymondham, Norfolk.
Grave/Memorial Reference: III. 5. Cemetery: BARROW-IN-FURNESS CEMETERY
www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=372721
No match on Norlink
The 1901 Census has a George W. aged 3, living at The Lizard, Wymondham with his parents, Robert, (aged 28, a Boot Riveter) and Laura, (aged 25), along with his sister, Laura M.
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John Elvin - also on Abbey Roll of Honour
No obvious matches on CWGC
No match on Norlink
The 1901 Census has a John Elvin (age 5) living at The Lizard, Wymondham, with his parents John, (age 32, Labourer in a Stone Pit) and Eliza, (age 29) and siblings:-
Florence M...........Age 1
James.................Age 3
Updated see comment 6 below
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H Everett - also on Abbey Roll of Honour
Most likely
Name: EVERETT Initials: H G
Rank: Private
Regiment: Norfolk Regiment Unit Text: 1st/5th Bn.
Age: 19
Date of Death: 30/10/1917 Service No: 242546
Additional information: Son of Mrs. A. J. Everett, of Tibenham St., Tivetshall, Norwich. Grave/Memorial Reference: XXI. S. 14. Cemetery: BAGHDAD (NORTH GATE) WAR CEMETERY
www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=633373
No match on Norlink
No obvious match on the 1901 Census.
Updated see comment 6 below
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G Farrow - also on Abbey Roll of Honour
Name: FARROW, GEORGE ROBERT
Rank: Private
Regiment: Essex Regiment Unit Text: 1st Bn.
Age: 19 Date of Death: 13/08/1915 Service No: 20605
Additional information: Son of Noah and Harriett Farrow, of Northfield, Wymondham, Norfolk.
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 144 to 150 or 229 to 233. Memorial: HELLES MEMORIAL
www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=682700
Another one lost in the sinking of transport Royal Edward
A scan of a press cutting regarding the sinking of the transport ship Royal Edward, with a loss of over 1,000 troops and crew.
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A passage from the History of Norfolk Regiment tells the rest of the story. Colonel Tonge refers to the loss of 300 men, the best draft that ever left Felixstowe. These men volunteered to join the Essex Regiment and appear to have constituted the drafts of June 23 and July 24 1915. They were part of the reinforcements carried by the transport "Royal Edward" which was torpedoed and sunk in the Aegean Sea on August 14th 1915. She sank two and a half minutes after the torpedo struck her.Of the 1,400 men she carried only 600 were saved, and the drowned included all but 18 of the 300 Norfolk men. The men who had had a route march just before leaving Alexandria, were waiting on deck for foot inspection at about 9.20 am. Their lifebelts were down below, and when the ship was unexpectedly struck most of them ran below to fetch the belts. Owing to the ship's sudden heeling over and sinking, these never got up again. Those who escaped were picked up by a hospital ship which responded to the s.o.s. signal.
www.geocities.com/heartland/acres/5564/royaledward.html
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T Fickling - also on Abbey Roll of Honour
Name: FICKLING, THOMAS ROBERT
Rank: Rifleman
Regiment: Rifle Brigade Unit Text: 3rd Bn.
Date of Death: 23/10/1914 Service No: 2127
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 10. Memorial: PLOEGSTEERT MEMORIAL
www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=872720
No match on Norlink
There is no obvious match on the 1901 Census There is a Thomas Fickling, born 1847 at Bunwell and now resident in Middlesex as a retired Metropolitan Police Officer, and there still appear to be other Fickling’s in the Bunwell area.
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A Fordham - also on Abbey Roll of Honour
No obvious matches on CWGC
No match on Norlink
The 1901 Census has an Alfred Fordham, aged 8, who was living at Besthorpe and born at Kenninghall, as a possible match. His parents were George, (aged 44, Team man on Farm) and Elizabeth, (aged 45). Also at the same address were siblings Alice, (aged 12), Ernest, (aged 20, a Great Eastern Railway Porter), Florence, (aged 11), Herbert (aged 17, Horseman on Farm) and Leonard, (aged 7)
Updated see comment 6 below
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A Forkes - also on Abbey Roll of Honour
Name: FORKES Initials: A B
Rank: Trooper
Regiment: Household Battalion
Date of Death: 11/04/1917 Service No: 1439
Grave/Memorial Reference: G. 11. Cemetery: ATHIES COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=256890
Picture on Norlink
norlink.norfolk.gov.uk/02_Catalogue/02_013_PictureTitleIn...
Norlink notes
Trooper Forkes was born 6th September 1886 and educated at Wymondham Council school. He enlisted on 23rd October 1916. He died from wounds received in action in France, 11th April 1917
At the time of the 1901 Census, Albert, a 14 year old Boot Shop Assistant, was living at Queens Street, Wymondham in the household of his parents, William, (aged 58, a boot maker), and Rhoda Forkes, (aged 54). Also in the household were siblings Earnest Forkes, (age 16, a Grocers assistant), Fred, (aged 12) and William, (aged 18 and a Brush Factory hand)
The Scarpe, Arras, Fampoux and Roeux (8th April to 14th May 1917)
The misfortunes of Britain's allies in 1917 dictated circumstances in which three major battles, Arras, 3rd Ypres and Cambrai, were planned and fought. The Household Battalion was involved to the hilt in all three. The French commander Nivelle was replaced by Marshals Foch and Petain in Spring 1917 after part of the French army mutinied. Field Marshall Sir Douglas Haig launched the Arras offensive on Easter Monday 1917 to draw German attention away from the disaster which had overtaken the French army, further South. As a cavalry officer, he saw the mission of cavalry as the exploitation of the eventual break through in the trench war stalemate and put the 3rd Cavalry Division into the attack on the Hindenhurg Line at Monchy le Preux on Easter Monday, 9th April 1917. There was a general advance of the infantry north and south of the 45 foot wide, 6 foot deep Scarpe River flowing east to west through Arras. North of the Scarpe, the Household Battalion, as part of the 10th Brigade in the 4th Infantry Division were allotted the task of advancing along the swampy banks of the muddy little river on the hamlet of Fampoux, (formerly pop. 1,015 but now flattened and enemy held).
While their brothers of The 1st and 2nd Life Guards and Blues rode against barbed wire and machine guns with the 3rd Cavalry Division to Monchy, The Household Battalion stalked towards Fampoux with rifles and bayonets in the sleet. With them were the Warwicks, Seaforth and Royal Irish Fusiliers. It took the Brigade 11 days to take Fampoux and The Household Battalion lost 9 Officers and 166 non Commissioned Officers and Men killed in action. Ahead was the smaller but even more formidable German defence at Roeux at a bend in the river, one mile from Fampoux and 6,000 yards from the Hindenhurg Line itself.
www.maxwall.co.uk/army/history.htm
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A J Fulcher - also on Abbey Roll of Honour (A Fulcher)
Name: FULCHER, ARTHUR JOHN
Rank: Private
Regiment: Norfolk Regiment Unit Text: 1st/4th Bn.
Age: 37 Date of Death: 01/09/1915 Service No: 2243
Additional information: Son of Mrs. Elizabeth Fulcher, of Wymondham, Norfolk, husband of Laura Fulcher, of Damgate Bridge, Wymondham, Norfolk.
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 42 to 44. Memorial: HELLES MEMORIAL
www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=681137
The 1st/4th were out of the line at this time, so I can only assume Private Fulcher died of wounds or illness.
user.online.be/~snelders/sand.htm
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G George - also on Abbey Roll of Honour
Name: GEORGE, GEORGE
Rank: Private
Regiment: Norfolk Regiment Unit Text: 9th Bn.
Age: 19 Date of Death: 30/05/1917 Service No: 29887
Additional information: Son of Esther George, of Wymondham, Norfolk.
Grave/Memorial Reference: II. B. 26. Cemetery: BARLIN COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=469971
There are no obvious matches on the 1901 Census.
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V G Goodings - also on Abbey Roll of Honour (as G V Goodings)
Name: GOODINGS, VICTOR GEORGE
Rank: Private
Regiment: The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment) Unit Text: 6th Bn. Date of Death: 27/09/1918 Service No: G/67435
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 3. Memorial: VIS-EN-ARTOIS MEMORIAL
www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=1742907
No match on Norlink
The 1901 Census has a Victor G.Goodings, aged 1, living at Damgate Street, Wymondham, with his parents, William, (aged 38, a Chimney Sweep) and Elizabeth, (aged 34) and siblings, Ethel M, (aged 7), Lily E, (aged 12), Maud, (aged 10)and Robert W. (aged 14, a Brush Turner)
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F G Heron - also on Abbey Roll of Honour (F Heron)
Name: HERON, FREDERICK GEORGE
Rank: Private
Regiment: Norfolk Regiment Unit Text: 1st/5th Bn.
Age: 21 Date of Death: 21/08/1915 Service No: 3022
Additional information: Son of George and Sarah Heron, of Vicar St., Wymondham, Norfolk.
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 42 to 44. Memorial: HELLES MEMORIAL
www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=691575
The 1901 Census has a Frederick, age 6, living at Pople Street, Wymondham with his parents George, (age 33, a shoe riveter) and Sarah, (aged 29).
21st August 1915
Having lost over 200 men from the battalion shortly before this on the 12th, the battalion was to lose at least another 36 on this day.
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C High - also on Abbey Roll of Honour
Most Likely (out of three)
Name: HIGH, CHARLES EDWARD
Rank: Private
Regiment: Norfolk Regiment Unit Text: 1st Bn.
Date of Death: 18/04/1915 Service No: 3/5246
Memorial Reference: Panel 4. Memorial: YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=1614040
No match on Norlink
No obvious match on the 1901 Census.
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W Howes
Possibly
Name: HOWES, WALTER SYLVESTER
Rank: Lance Corporal
Regiment: Norfolk Regiment Unit Text: 1st/5th Bn.
Date of Death: 02/11/1917 Service No: 240782
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panels 12 to 15. Memorial: JERUSALEM MEMORIAL
www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=1645682
Or
Name: HOWES, WALTER
Rank: Seaman
Service: Royal Naval Reserve Unit Text: H.M.S. "Clan McNaughton."
Age: 48 Date of Death: 03/02/1915 Service No: 6231A
Additional information: Husband of Alice Howes, of 9, Rising Sun Lane, Cattle Market, Norwich.
Grave/Memorial Reference: 14. Memorial: CHATHAM NAVAL MEMORIAL
www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=4004305
Or
Name: HOWES Initials: W
Rank: Private Regiment/Service: Norfolk Regiment Unit Text: 2nd Bn.
Date of Death: 07/12/1916 Service No: 7696
Grave/Memorial Reference: Angora Mem. 90. Cemetery: BAGHDAD (NORTH GATE) WAR CEMETERY
www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=633895
But there are many others to choose for
No match on Norlink
The 1901 Census has:-
Walter aged 10, born Wymondham, resident Kimberley Hall, Wymondham
Walter aged 28 born Wymondham, resident White Horse Street, Wymondham
Walter aged 34 born Wymondham, resident 35 Childers Street, Deptford
A Christmas ghost story perhaps?
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Another reworking of a previous upload (sigh). Hopefully I will eventually get out to do some fresh stuff over the holidays!!!
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Historical note: Buxton Mill, Norfolk, England, UK
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Buxton Mill, in Buxton, Norfolk, not to be confused with Buxton, Derbyshire, sits over the River Bure between Buxton and Lamas, Norfolk. The mill arches over the river and forms a crossing point between Aylsham and Coltishall. Buxton Mill is steeped in history, the watermill was recorded in Doomsday Book in 1085. William Pepper, a merchant living in Buxton, last rebuilt it as a mill in 1754. The building was constructed of white painted brick and weatherboard with a pantile roof and has been a prominent landmark in the village for many years.
The mill was reconstructed after a devastating fire in Jan 1991 and used as a case study covering the fire and the major reconstruction that followed. An excellent history can be found at Norfolk Mills.
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3XP
A Dozen Reasons for Preferring a Poet to a Soldier
Merch yn Edliw ei Lyfrdra
Slender, tentative lady
In gilt and jewels, with shady
Eyes, Eigr with augrim stones
Will not reckon what she owes.
I reproach her ‘neath the leaves:
“Shining jewel who never loves,
I sing your praise, smooth as milk,
Eight times bright as spider-silk.”
She:
“You are easy to renounce:
Love is dull, worth not an ounce
Of basest metal, Dafydd:
It would only make me laugh if
Your were mine, craven coward.”
Thus she scoffed, fickle, froward.
He:
“Gossamer-clad, choosy one,
Determined to do me wrong.
I am genial, a charmer –
A coward, true, without armour –
But in the arbour, Ovid scores:
I’m valiant in amores!
Eigr’s rival, you scarce know me,
But for cywyddau, sure you owe me!
Besides, I count at zero
Dauntless love for some hero:
Grim thought – I know, it’s tough –
A soldier’s love is always rough,
For he loves war (that’s scary),
Every way a mercenary.
Should he hear in Scotland, France,
Of battle, he’ll advance,
Seek adventure there instead,
Forsake manoeuvres in your bed.
And what then? Should he survive,
Thrash the French, escape alive
From the crossbows as they shoot,
He’ll return a scarred old brute.
He prefers his sword and lance
To you – don’t look askance –
And his corselet and shield,
And his stallion, roaring “Yield!”
Should you smart, he’ll not protect:
He’ll tup you and show no respect.
With witty words I’m well endowed
Enough to strip your silken shroud
And weave instead a robe of praise –
Then gaze upon you all our days.
Were I to conquer kingdoms rich,
Deifr’s charms would yet bewitch
Me. I’d give them all, and run,
Embrace the splendour of the sun."
Source material: Dafydd ap Gwilym, paraphrased by Giles Watson. As he implies in line 20 (“Llwfr wyf ar waith llyfr Ovid”), Dafydd is indebted here to Ovid’s Amores iii, 8, in which the poet tells a girl she is stupid for loving a soldier in preference to him, but as always, he makes the theme his own by adopting a measure of self-irony, and by sly references to the phallic nature of a mediaeval soldier’s weaponry. He compares his beloved to Eigr (Ygraine in the Arthurian cycle), the mother of Arthur, who had direct experience of a soldier’s unwanted advances, but later casts her in the mould of Deifr, one of the maidens in Arthur’s court. The references to wars with the French make it probable that Dafydd is deliberately juxtaposing chivalric ideals with the martial realities of his own lifetime. Accordingly, in my paraphrase I have armed the French with the crossbow: a killing machine which proved disastrously less efficient than the English longbow at the Battle of Crécy in 1346. Indeed, Ifor Williams has suggested that line 48 is an ironic reference to the hubris of Edward III after his victory at Crécy and his conquest of Calais. Rachel Bromwich has suggested that the word awgrym is “derived from the name of the Arabic inventor of Algebra, used by extension to denote the Arabic system of numerals, and hence ‘arithmetic’. ‘Augrim stones’ were used for counting; hence Dafydd asks the girl to reckon what she owes him, presumably for his poems to her.” I like to think that Dafydd is implying that the girl is counting up the pros and cons of the soldier on an abacus, or on her rosary beads. Perhaps a Latinate pun is also intended, since the identification of the girl with the sun at the end of the poem suggests that, like Morfudd, she is a “golden girl”. A more far-fetched interpretation – albeit a pleasing one – is that the girl is attempting to read love auguries by casting stones.
For details on the stained glass in the picture, see:
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Ford Mustang, 289ci, V8 small block, 1966(so I'm reliably informed), metallic duck poo green!
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The lift tower and stairway on Sovereign Way, Anglia Square in Norwich. This along with many features will be coming down in the near future, supposedly! Bit of a shame really, I've grown quite attached to it in a strange kind of way.
The Anglia Square shopping centre is located to the north of Norwich city centre. It is bounded by historic Magdalen and St Augustines streets.
Built in the 1960s and 70s in an area that had been heavily bombed in the Baedeker raids during World War II. The centre was designed by Allan Cooke & Partners who handled the whole development.
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The first clear day we've had for weeks. Yay!!! I had many chores to contend with today, so I just had to get out and catch some of that late afternoon, low elevation light.
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Order in disorder View On Black
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A friend of mine runs a custom and renovation business specialising in Mustangs, funnily enough called the Mustang Shop, just outside Norwich. All sorts of goodies in here to feed the imagination.
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I liked the way the blocks behind the tools are clean compared to the areas where grime and the fumes from paint thinners and exhausts have adhered to the wall.
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Lockheed T-33A Shooting Star, 16718
Supplied to the French Air Force in the 1950’s and served with 314 Groupement Ecole before being returned to the USAF almost thirty years later. It was planned to be delivered to Turkey in 1986 but refused to start at RAF Sculthorpe, Norfolk, and was subsequently offered to the CNAM. 16718 arrived at the museum on 31st May 1986 and is currently painted silver with black trim.
Above info thanks to www.cnam.co.uk/aircraft/t3316718/index.html
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I don't normally manipulate my photos, well, not to any great extent, apart from curves etc, but this one was crying out for it!!!
Handley Page Herald, G-ASKK
First flew July 1962 as CK-MCK in the colours of Maritime Central Airways (who never actually flew the type). Having taken part in the Farnborough show of 1962, the following August saw it being allocated to Cruz Airways as PI-C910 with the colour scheme changed to chocolate and cream, but this deal failed as well. In December 1963 Autair used G-ASKK before being sold to British Midland Airways in February 1965. Next was a move to British United Airways which was setting up a subsidiary British United Island Airways which became British Island Airways. In 1980 BIA was taken over by Air UK and the aircraft was painted in the colours you see today (red, white and blue). G-ASKK took its last flight on 30th March 1985 from Southampton to Norwich and was sold to CNAM for the sum of £1.
Above info thanks to www.cnam.co.uk/aircraft/gaskk/index.html
A visit to The City of Norwich Aviation Museum turned up some interesting finds. Rather than attempting to shoot the entire plane, due to lack of space and encroaching elements, I attempted to treat the various aircraft as pieces of abstract sculpture, concentrating on specific areas of tone, texture and geometry for my composition.
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A viewpoint less common than most images of Norwich Cathedral. The South Transept with clock. I will be posting another image of the clock in more detail at some other time. ;-)
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Historical note: Norwich Cathedral, Norwich, Norfolk, UK
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Norwich Cathedral was one of the great buildings of its time. With construction beginning in 1096 and finishing by c.1145, it was amongst the largest major churches in Europe. The Norman building was an example of that uniquely English phenomenon: a cathedral that was also a Benedictine priory – the bishop’s seat, but run by the prior and his monks. The immense architectural importance of the Cathedral today chiefly rests on the scale of the original Romanesque building and the completeness of its survival. The four arms of the cross-shaped church and the central tower are all largely original and, unusually, the east end of the Cathedral preserves intact its ambulatory and two of its radiating chapels. Losses have been few, and later embellishments include Gothic features such as the high vaults and the spire.
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From: www.cathedral.org.uk/historyheritage/architecture-the-cat...
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English Electric Lightning F.53, 53-686
One of thirty four aircraft built for the Royal Saudi Air Force, this example was first flown on 11th June 1968 and was in a static display at that years Farnborough air show. Delivery to Saudi Arabia took place on 17th April 1969 where it entered service with 2 Squadron at Khamis Mushayt Air Base as 53-686. Having been replaced by the F-15 Eagle, the Lightnings were returned to the UK in 1986 to an uncertain future. Having spent some time with a dealer of surplus military equipment, 53-686 (ZF592) was bought by a local enthusiast at the end of 2001. In February 2002 the aircraft arrived at the museum in kit form and is currently nearing the end of its rebuild.
Above info thanks to www.cnam.co.uk/aircraft/zf592/index.html
Tone, texture and geometry.
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The church at Booton is an extraordinary building, the product of one man’s eccentric imagination.
The Reverend Whitwell Elwin, a descendant of Pocahontas of Hiawatha fame, built the church at the end of the 19th century without the help of an architect, borrowing details from other churches throughout the country.
Some of his models can be identified; the west doorway was inspired by Glastonbury Abbey, for example, but the slender twin towers which soar over the wide East Anglian landscape and the central pinnacle which looks almost like a minaret, seem to have sprung solely from his imagination. Dramatic wooden angels hold up the roof, the work of James Minns, a well-known master-carver whose carving of a bull’s head is still the emblem on Colman’s Mustard. The delicately coloured stained glass windows also show angels, a series of musicians with flowing hair and pretty female faces.
Edwin Lutyens, the distinguished architect who married the daughter of one of Elwin’s oldest friends, said the church was ‘very naughty but built in the right spirit’.
You may love the church; you may be outraged by it, but you cannot remain unmoved by such an exuberant oddity, and such a beautiful piece of architecture.
Handley Page Herald II
One of two Rolls-Royce RB.53 Dart turboprop engines that power the Herald HPR.7.
Gluszyca-Karpacz 73km
Skidmarks - 4.38
Sunday Riders - 4.50
Today Jane was feeling better and ripped my legs off for the first hour and a half. At the bottom of the first climb a girl from another mixed team gave Jane the 'Lance glance' and the pain began.
Then she saw a sofa in the middle of nowhere, which intruiged her. So we stopped for a look and four mixed teams passed us including the girl who started it :-) Jane can be fickle:)
Later in Karpacz we met a very excited Nicky who insisted we all ride the kolorowa, a bob sleigh in a metal run on the side of the mountain! The sleigh is towed up the mountain by a chair lift, which then lets you go down a twisted, bermed metal half tube. Fantastic:-)
The skull of a Hartebeest. A Swaynes Hartebeest, I believe. Now, you don't get many of these in North Norfolk do you?
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I have processed a monochrome version of this shot. Not sure which one I prefer....