Northrepps, Norfolk war memorial

THIS CROSS IS ERECTED

IN GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE

OF THE MEN FROM THIS PARISH

WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES

FOR THEIR COUNTRY

IN THE GREAT WAR

1914 - 1918

THEIR NAMES LIVETH FOR EVERMORE

 

1706 Private Charles Godfrey Beane, 5th. Battalion, Yorkshire Regiment.

Born at Hanworth, Norfolk in 1893, the son of Robert Godfrey and Harriet Elizabeth Beane, nee Randell of Winspers Farm, Northrepps.

Resident of Norwich, Norfolk.

Enlisted in Hull, Yorkshire.

Died at Lewisham, London from wounds received in France on Friday 14th. January 1916, aged 23.

Buried in the south-west section of St. Mary's churchyard, Northrepps.

 

12834 Private R.G. Brigham, 2nd. Battalion, Norfolk Regiment.

Died on 10th. May 1916.

Buried in Grave: V. K. 21 at Basra War Cemetery, Iraq.

 

74523 Gunner John William Bullimore, 'F' Battery, 4th. Brigade, Royal Horse Artillery.

Born in 1887, the Son of William and Mary Ann Bullimore of Beech Cottage, Crossdale Street, Northrepps.

Died on Sunday 18th. March 1917, age 30.

Buried in Grave: I. J. 44 at Varennes Military Cemetery, Somme, France.

 

25256 Private Edward Dennis, 6th. Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment.

Husband of Gertrude Ellen Dennis of Auckland House, 151, Mill Road, Cromer, Norfolk.

Died on 11th. August 1916, aged 42.

Buried in Grave: I. A. 7 at Croix-du-Bac British Cemetery, Steenwerck, Nord, France with the personnel inscription,

'AT REST'

 

235239 Private Frederick George Golden, 7th. Battalion, Yorkshire Regiment.

Born in 1990 at Northrepps, the son of Mrs. S. E. Woodhouse of Heath Cottage, Northrepps.

The 1911 senses records Frederick employed as a servant in Chelsea, London.

Enlisted in London.

Died of wounds on Monday 23rd. April 1917, aged 27.

Buried in Grave: IV. C. 34 at Duisans British Cemetery, Etrun, Pas de Calais, France with the personnel inscription,

'HE THAT LOSETH HIS LIFE FOR MY SAKE SHALL FIND IT'

 

875826 Bombardier Herbert Charles Golden, 'D' Battery, 95th. Brigade, Royal Field Artillery.

Born in 1893, the son of John and Elizabeth Golden of 7 Bulls Row, Church Street, Northrepps.

Died on Monday 22nd. October 1917, aged 24.

Buried in Grave: V. B. 2A at Mont Huon Military Cemetery, Le Treport, Seine-Maritime, France with the personnel inscription,

'REST IN PEACE'

 

204751 Private Earnest William Golden, 8th. Battalion, East Surrey Regiment, formally J/0131 Private, Royal Army Veterinary Corps.

Born in 1885, the son of John and Elizabeth Golden of 7 Bulls Row, Church Street, Northrepps.

Died on Monday 15th. July 1918, aged 33.

Commemorated in Special Memorial E, No. 17 at Chauny Communal Cemetery British Extension, Aisne, France with the personnel inscription,

'PEACE PERFECT PEACE'

Relating to Earnest on Army Form W. 3372 Graves Registration Report Form

'Special Memorial 'E'

"To the memory of these 7 British Soldiers, killed in action in July and August 1918 and buried at the time in Versigny German Military Cemetery, whose graves are now lost.

"There glory shall not be blotted out"

 

25697 Private Edward James Hunt, 9th. Battalion, Norfolk Regiment.

Born on 25th. November 1887 at Roughton, Norfolk, the son of John and Lucy Hunt, of Northrepps.

On census day 1891, Edward, aged 3 lived on Cromer Road, Roughton, with his parents, older brother John, and widowed grandmother Elizabeth Claxton widow and his uncle John Claxton.

In 1910 he married Emily Lily Green of Stow Bedon, Attleborough, Norfolk.

Died at No. 7 Casualty Clearing Station from wounds on Monday 14th. May 1917, aged 29.

Buried in Grave: I. R. 26 at Noeux-les-Mines Communal Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France with the personnel inscription,

'NOT GONE FROM MEMORY NOT GONE FROM LOVE ONLY RESTING IN THAT HAPPY HOME ABOVE'

 

353214 Private Horace A. Jordan, 9th. Battalion, Royal Scots, formally 14931 Private, Essex Regiment.

The son of Robert and Harriet Jordan of Rose Cottage, Church Street, Northrepps.

Died on 25th. July 1918, aged 24.

No known grave, commemorated on the Soissons Memorial, Aisne, France.

 

14930 Private Cecil Ling, 10th. Battalion, Essex Regiment.

Born in 1882, the son of Thomas and Maria Ling.

Enlisted in September 1914.

Died on Thursday 8th. August 1918, aged 36.

No known grave, commemorated on Panel 7 of the Vis-en-Artois Memorial, Pas de Calais, France.

 

R/4127 Rifleman James Edward Loynes, 13th. Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps.

Killed in action, possibly near Mametz Wood, on Wednesday 9th. August 1916.

No known grave, commemorated on Bay 7 of the Arras Memorial, Pas de Calais, France.

 

92345 Private William John Mann, 'A' Company, 16th. Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment).

The son of Charles and Emily Mann of Upper Stoke Holy Cross, Norfolk.

Died on Saturday 22nd. September 1917, aged 27.

Buried in Grave: LXII. G. 11 at Tyne Cot Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

 

9157 Private William Robert Mayes, 2nd. Battalion, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry.

Died on 4th. December 1914.

Buried in Grave 5 at St. Acheul French National Cemetery, Amiens, Somme, France.

 

27603 Private Howard Payne, 1st. Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment.

Born in and resident of Trimingham, Norfolk.

Killed in action, possibly at Antelope Trench, on 12th. October 1916.

No known grave, commemorated on Pier and Face 9 A, 9 B and 10 B of the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France.

 

016614 Private Norman Payne, 13th. Company, Army Ordnance Corps.

The son of Robert and Mary Payne of 30, Church Street, Northrepps.

Died on Sunday 30th. June 1918, aged 22.

Buried in Grave: Div. 62. III. K. 7 at Ste. Marir Cemetery, Le Havre, Seine-Maritime, France.

 

28217 Private Ambrose Arthur Reynolds, 11th. Battalion, Essex Regiment.

Born at Northrepps on 27th. October 1886, the son of Robert and Mary Ann Reynolds, nee Cole. Husband of Mabel M. Reynolds, nee Attew.

Killed in action on the Cambrin- Hohenzollern Quarries front on 27th. December 1916, aged 30.

Buried in Grave: T.7 at Cambrin Churchyard Extension, Pas de Calais, France.

 

TF/241685 Private Walter Reynolds, 1st/8th. Battalion, Middlesex Regiment.

The son of Walter George and Harriet Edith Reynolds of Pit Row, Northrepps.

Died on 20th. May 1917, aged 22.

No known grave, commemorated on Bay 7 of the Arras Memorial, Pas de Calais, France.

 

206137 Private Percy William Reynolds, 9th. Battalion, Norfolk Regiment.

Born in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, the son of Walter and Katie Maria Reynolds of Golden Square, Northrepps.

Died on Monday 15th. April 1918, aged 20.

No known grave, commemorated on Panel 34 and 35 of the Tyne Cot Memorial, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

 

17795 Private Henry Robert Risebrow, 10th. Battalion, Essex Regiment.

Born in 1893 at Northrepps, the son of Henry George and Laura Risebrow, nee Payne, of The Old Lodge, Northrepps Hall, Northrepps.

In 1911 Henry was employed as a gardener.

Died on Tuesday 6th. November 1917, aged 24.

No known grave, commemorated on Panel 98 and 99 of the Tyne Cot Memorial, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

 

1617 Private Harman Frederick Risebrow, Norfolk Yeomanry.

The son of Edward John and Sarah Risebrow of Church Street, Northrepps, brother of Arnold (b. 1901) and Earnest (b. 1903)

Died on Sunday 5th. December 1915, aged 20.

No known grave, commemorated on Panel 21 of the Helles Memorial, Turkey (including Gallipoli).

 

63878 Air Mechanic 1st. Class Earnest George Silver, Royal Air Force.

Born 11th. May 1878 at Northrepps, the son of George and Maria Silver of Northrepps. Husband of Alice Adora Silver, nee Woodhouse, of Church Street, Northrepps. Father of Cecil.

Died on at Nantwich, Cheshire on Thursday 17th. October 1918, aged 40.

Buried south of the church in St. Mary's churchyard, Northrepps.

 

15127 Private George Cyril Smith, 9th. Battalion, Norfolk Regiment.

Born in 1890, the son of John Henry Smith Norwich, Norfolk.

Native of Cromer, Norfolk.

Died of wounds on Tuesday 26th. September 1916, aged 26.

Buried in Grave: B. 21. 53 at St. Sever Cemetery, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France with the personnel inscription ,

'PEACE PERFECT PEACE'

 

15939 Corporal Sydney Arthur Smith, 9th. Battalion, Norfolk Regiment.

Born in 1892, the son of John Henry Smith of Norwich, Norfolk.

Native of Northrepps.

Killed in action during the attack on high ground called 'The Quadrilateral' at Ginchy, near Guillemont in the Somme, on Friday 15th. September 1916, aged 24.

Buried in Grave: XI. U. 7 at Guards' Cemetery, Lesboeufs, Somme, France with the personnel inscription,

'AT REST'

 

SECOND WORLD WAR

1939 - 1945

 

1269945 Ft. Sgt. Charles Walpole Roberts, Navigator, RAFVR, 617 Sqn. RAF.

Born on 19th. January 1921 in Northrepps, the only son of Charles Augustus and Dorcus Roberts.

Educated at Paston School, the school of Admiral Lord Nelson, he was a trainee accountant in civilian life, before enrolling in the RAF in 1940. He was selected for pilot training and was sent to Rhodesia for training at an Elementary Flying Training School. Like many would-be pilots, he ended up qualifying as a navigator.

Serving with 57 Squadron at RAF Scampton, Lincolnshire, on 25th March 1943 he was reposted to 617 Squadron to take part in 'Operation Chastise', the dams raid.

Flying in Avro Lancaster III, ED887, coded AJ-A, the bomber was in first wave, and the fourth aircraft to attack Möhne dam. Their 'bouncing bomb' was dropped accurately, causing a small breach. After attacking the Mohne dam the Lancaster headed for the Eder dam before turning for home. AJ-A was shot down by flak at 02.59 after they had passed over the Dutch coast at Castricum aan Zee. The whole crew died on 17th. May 1943

On 19th. May, Charles Roberts’s body was the first of those of the crew of AJ-A to be washed ashore, and he was buried two days later in Plot 2. Row E. Grave 17 at Bergen General Cemetery, near Alkmaar, The Netherlands. He was aged 22.

Charles was engaged to Irene Mountney, a WAAF who worked at Scampton packing parachutes.

 

1470769 Leading Aircraftman William Henry Golden, RAFVR, No. 5042 Air Ministry Experimental Station (AMES) at Cox's Bazaar, serving with 182 Wing.

The son of William Henry and Harriet Mary Golden of Northrepps.

Died at 61 Military Field Hospital in Chittagong of an internal haemorrhage on 15th. June 1944, aged 38.

Buried in Grave: 6. G. 6. at Chittagong War Cemetery, Chattogram, Bangladesh with the personal inscription,

'DEARLY LOVED SON OF W.H. AND H.M. GOLDEN. AWAITING THE RADIANT MORN'

 

102724 Lieutenant Hugh Christopher Gurney, 'C' Squadron, 2 SAS.

Born in London, the son of Christopher Richard and Dorothy Clara Gurney, nee Ruggles-Brise, of Northrepps Hall.

Hugh Gurney's army career began in the 5th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment. He also serviced with No.7 Commando in Crete where he was wounded, the Libyan Arab Force in North Africa, the Druse Regiment in Syria and 11th. Battalion, Parachute Regiment in Palestine and the Aegean Sea.

On 19th. August 1944, as a member of 2 SAS, he, along with 60 other men, were sent behind enemy lines. There task, known as 'Operation Wallace', was to attack the retreating Germany army and destroy there communications. He was shot and killed, aged 27, while withdrawing from an ambush with the French Maquis, on a German transport truck at Velorcey, Haute-Saone, France.

He was Mentioned in Dispatches for his part in 'Operation Wallace' and is buried at Velorcey Communal Cemetery, where his grave is the only war grave.

 

170408 Lt. Richard High Killigrew Wait, 150th. (10th. Battalion, The York and Lancaster Regiment.) Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps, S.E.A.C

Born in 1921,the son of Maj. Geoffrey Killigrew Wait, M C, Wiltshire Regiment (killed on active service 23rd. August 1942), and of Laura Mabel Wait of Cromer, Norfolk.

Educated at Rugby School.

Killed in action at Mandalay on 21st. February 1945, aged 23.

Buried in Grave: 18. D. 4. at Taukkyan War Cemetery, Htauk Kyant, Yangon, Myanmar.

 

14205724 Private Ronald Victor Dennis, 6th. Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers, formally Private, East Norfolk Regiment.

The son of Victor George and Ruby Eleanor Dennis of Cromer, Norfolk.

Killed near the Rhine on 26th. March 1945, aged 22.

Buried in Grave: 58. K. 14. at Reichswald Forest Cemetery, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany with the personal inscription,

'IN LOVING MEMORY OF A BROTHER AND SON. PEACE, PERFECT PEACE'

Also remembered on the village war memorial at Overstrand in Norfolk..

 

5781842 Private Norman Payne, 4th. Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment.

The son of Emma Elizabeth Payne of Northrepps.

Died as a prisoner of war of the Japanese on the Bangkok - Moulmein railway of colitis on 6th. September 1943, aged 25.

Buried in Grave: B1. E. 8. at Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery, Myanmar with the personal inscription,

'AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN AND IN THE MORNING WE WILL REMEMBER THEM'

 

5772273 Private Walter George Bloom, 6th. Battalion,

Royal Norfolk Regiment.

Born at Overstrand, Norfolk, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bloom of Northrepps.

Died as a prisoner of war of the Japanese in Thailand of beriberi on 9th. January 1944, aged 27.

Buried in Grave: 3. F. 4. at Chungkia War Cemetery, Kanchanaburi, Thailand.

 

 

The war memorial received Grade: II listed building status on 27th. February 2018.

 

 

 

 

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