Overstrand War Memorial

The memorial of Overstrand are all arranged in order of date of death.

Below is a list of the names in alphabetical order. For more details on all of them see the panel shots of the War Memorial and the Roll of Honour in the church.

 

Great War

 

Ernest William Baxter 1st Battalion Norfolk Regiment

 

Born 1st April 1894, Cromer. Baptised Cromer Resident Suffield Park, Cromer. Link to Overstrand not known. Brother of Francis Henry Baxter.

Died France & Flanders 22nd August 1918

 

Francis Henry Baxter 8th Battalion North.Staffordshire Regiment

 

Born 24th December 1897, Cromer. Baptised Cromer Resident Suffield Park, Cromer. Link to Overstrand not known. Brother of Ernest William Baxter.

Died France & Flanders 18th April 1918

 

Gilbert George Beckett RAF

 

Born 26th January 1879, Happisburgh. Baptised St Martin, Overstrand (1891). Family lived Harbord Road then, “Engadine”, Cromer Road, the “The Gables”. Father was Overstrand Sub-Postmaster. Gilbert is buried in the churchyard. Died 24th February 1919 in the UK.

 

Charles Arthur Betts 2nd/7th Battalion Worcestershire Regiment

 

Born 2nd October, 1893, Overstrand. Baptised Overstrand. Educated Overstrand School.Family lived at Cromer Road and then East Terrace. On the CWGC entry his father was living at Rose Cottage, The Londs.

Died 3rd December 1917 at Cambrai.

 

Victor John Bowden 6th Battalion (The Buffs) East.Kent Regiment

 

Born 28th October 1897, Overstrand. Baptised Overstrand. Educated Overstrand School.Family lived at Rectory Cottages. Died France & Flanders 16th May 1918.

 

Harold Bradbrook 9th Battalion Norfolk Regiment

 

Born 3rd January 1896, Overstrand. Lived Suffield Park. Died on the Somme, 15th September 1916.

 

Charles John Bumfrey 2nd Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment

 

Born 26th June 1888, Alby. Connection to Overstrand not known. Died Flanders 20th September 1917.

 

Claude Theodore Church 8th Battalion Norfolk Regiment

 

Born 10th September 1888, Overstrand. Baptised Overstrand. Educated Overstrand School. Family lived at 10, Gunton Terrace. Brother of Herbert Thomas, cousin of Herbert Smith, (see below for both). Died on the Somme, 2nd July 1916.

 

Herbert Smith Church 2nd/4th Battalion Royal.Berkshire Regiment

 

Born March 1885, Battersea, London. On the 1901 census living with his cousins Claude Theodore, (above) and Herbert Thomas, (below) at 10, Gunton Terrace. 1911 census has him living with his parents at 6 Harbord Road. Died Belgium, 10th September 1917.

 

Herbert Thomas Church Russian Armoured Car Brigade

 

Born July 20th 1899 Overstrand. Baptised Overstrand. Educated Overstrand School.Family lived at 10, Gunton Terrace. Brother of Claude Theodore, cousin of Herbert Smith, (see above for both). Died Baku, Russia, 15th October 1918.

 

Andrew John Clarke The Depot, Norfolk Regiment

 

Born 2nd April 1901, Bareilly, India.. Family lived Suffield Park and then The Bungalow, Royal Cromer Golf Club. Brother of Herbert Richard, see below. Connection to Overstrand not known. Died in the UK 22nd February 1919 and buried Cromer.

 

Herbert Richard Clarke 2nd/5th Battalion Norfolk Regiment

 

Born July 1897 either Ranibet or Maurilet, India, (depending on source).Same details as brother Andrew John above except died in the UK 8th June 1915. He is also buried Cromer.

 

Sidney Frederick Worship Codling 12th Battalion (Kings.Own.Norfolk Yeomanry), Norfolk Regiment.

 

Born September 24th 1892 Overstrand. Educated Overstrand School. Family lived at the White Horse Hotel where his father was Innkeeper. He was lost off Alexandria, Egypt, when the troopship HMT Aragon was torpedoed and sunk on the 30th December 1917.

 

Arthur Harry Cook 3rd Battalion Grenadier Guards - (the War Memorial in the churchyard have transposed the units for Arthur and his brother Sidney, (see below).

 

Born November 24th 1885, Chesham, Bucks. By the time of the 1911 census was serving as a Police Constable with the Norfolk Constabulary, in lodgings at Old Catton, near Norwich.. His widowed mother had moved to Cromer by the time of the same census. Immediate connection with Overstrand not known.

Died France 12th July 1916.

 

Sidney Isaac Cook 19th Battalion, The Kings Liverpool Regiment (the War Memorial in the churchyard have transposed the units for Sidney and his brother Arthur, (see above).

 

Born November 6th 1895, Gayton, Norfolk. By the time of the 1911 he was living with his widowed mother in Cromer. Immediate connection with Overstrand not known. Died on the Somme, 30th July 1916.

 

Henry Robert Comer 11th Battalion Norfolk Regiment (transferred to the Labour Corps)

 

Born 4th February 1883, Northrepps. Eductade at Overstrand School. By the 1911 census parents had moved to Overstrand but no exact address is shown. Died in the UK 29th August 1918 and is buried in Worcestershire.

 

Ronald William Cork Royal Naval Reserve (R.N.A.T)

 

Born June 1895 Trunch Norfolk, by 1901 census had moved to Overstrand, (Cromer Road). Educated Overstrand School. By 1911 at 5 East Terrace and his parents were later recorded at 3 “Elst” Terrace.

Lost when H.M Trawler Achilles 11 was torpedoed and sunk off Harwich on the 26th June 1918.

 

 

William Randell England 1st Battalion Norfolk Regiment

 

Born 13th June 1895, Overstrand. Baptised Overstrand. Educated Overstrand School.Family lived at “Verona House”, Cromer Road. Father was the village baker and this was also his shop. Died Belgium 27th May 1915.

 

Wallace James Grace 2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment

 

Born Husborne Crawley, Bedfordshire. 21st December 1889. By the 1901 census family had moved to The Londs. Educated Overstrand School. Following enquiries it now appears Wallace went missing on the 31st July 1917 on the opening day of Passchendaele and that is the most likely date of his death. This is with odds with what is shown in the Book of Remembrance, where he is shown with a known death a year earlier, which is then replicated in all the date ordered memorials.

 

William M Hardingham 1st Battalion Royal Fusiliers

 

Born Booton, Norfolk circa 1887. Lived with his wife at Suffield Park. No obvious connection with Overstrand. He died in France and Flanders 11th June 1917.

 

Bertie Leonard Harvey 7th Battalion Norfolk Regiment

 

Born North Walsham 26th July 1894. Parents subsequently moved to Suffield Park. Died in France and Flanders 16th July 1917.

 

Edward William Jarvis Royal Navy

 

Born 9th February 1884 Overstrand. Educated at Overstrand School. Family lived at 1, Rectory Cottages. Edward was lost when HMS Pathfinder was torpedoed and sunk in the North Sea on the 5th September 1914.

 

Felix Marmaduke Kettle Royal Engineers

 

Born April 10th 1897, Roughton. No obvious Overstrand connection although Felix is buried in the churchyard. He died in the UK on the 6th December 1918.

 

William Lake 49th Battery Royal Field Artillery

 

Born circa 1872, Fakenham. Subsequently married a Cromer woman and moved to that town. No obvious Overstrand connection, although he is buried in the churchyard. William died in the UK on the 17th July 1915.

 

Charles Thomas Mills 2nd Battalion Scots Guards

 

Born London 13th March 1887 and was a Member of Parliament at the time of his death. He came from a wealthy banking famil who maintained a number of residences, including Overstrand Hall. He died in France and Flanders 6th October 1915.

 

Edward Henry Anthon Naylor Royal.Naval.Air .Service.

 

Born 25th June 1898, Letchmore Heath, Berkshire. By the time of the 1911 census the family has moved to The Pleasaunce, Gardens where it is likely that father and son were employed as gardeners. Edward completed his education at Overstrand School. He was wounded in Galicia while serving with the Russian Armoured Car Squadron, was repatriated to the UK where he died from his wounds on the 29th August 1917. He is buried in Overstrand churchyard.

 

Cyril W Paul 1st/5th Battalion Norfolk Regiment

 

Born September 7th 1896, Overstrand. Educated at Overstrand School. Lived with family at 6 Gunton Terrace, Died November 2nd 1917, Gaza Palestine.

 

William John Pegg Royal.Warwickshire Regiment

 

Born 21st June 1890, Hackford, Norfolk. By 1911 had moved to The Cottage, Overstrand Hall. Completed education at Overstrand school. He is stated to have died as a result of a “swooping aircraft” while recovering at a Convalescent Hospital in the UK from wounds he sustained in France. This was on the 11th March 1919. He is buried in the churchyard.

 

Richard Ayres Ritchie 2nd Battalion Norfolk Regiment

 

Born Ireland November 1891 he is possibly the “Dick” Ritchie recorded as a pupil at a boarding school in Suffield Park on the 1901 census. There is possibly also another member of the Ritchie family who had Overstrand connections by the time names were being sought for the memorial, (and possibly funds - Richard went to Sedbergh School and Trinity College, Oxford, while his probable brother Thomas - see below - went to Sedbergh and Pembroke College, Cambridge. Their parents are recorded as living on own means at such places as Mapplewell Hall and Nanpantan Hall in Leicestershire). Richard is said to have succumbed to his wounds in Mesopotamia on the 22nd November 1915.

 

Thomas Pearsall Ayres Ritchie 4th Battalion Rifle Brigade

 

Born 20th July 1894, Mapplewell Hall, Leicestershire. See Richard, his likely brother, above for details of what little there is in the way of an Overstrand connection. Richard died at St Eloi, France and Flanders, on the 15th March 1915.

 

Basil William George Roberts 1st Battalion Norfolk Regiment

 

Born 15th February 1895, Overstrand. Baptised Overstrand. Educated Overstrand School. Family lived at Gunton Terrace before moving to “Dundonald House” The Londs, Cliff Road. Died on the Somme, 31st July 1916

 

Ernest John Savory Royal Navy

 

Born 23rd September 1884, Hellington, Norfolk. No obvious Overstrand connection. Died in the Naval Hospital, Malta from Pneumonia, November 26th 1918. Brother of Sidney, (see below), but doesn’t appear to live with the family.

 

Sidney Robert Savory 1st Battalion Norfolk Rgt

 

Born 26th October 1894, Burgh, Aylsham, Norfolk. Lived Suffield Park. Died France 15th September 1914.

 

George Herbert Summers 2nd Battalion Norfolk Regiment

 

Born 17th December 1889, Overstrand. Educated at Overstrand School, Lived The Londs. Died in a Turkish Prisoner of War camp on the 30th June 1917, having been captured at the siege of Kut.

 

John White 1st/4th Battalion Norfolk Regiment

 

Born Gorleston 1891.No obvious link with Overstrand. Died in Hospital in Cairo, Egypt, of acute Pneumonia, July 19th 1919

 

Sidney Robert Woodhouse 6th Battalion The Queens (Royal West Surrey Regiment)

 

Born 14th April 1894, Overstrand. Baptised Overstrand. Educated Overstrand School. Family lived at The Londs. Killed in action near Arras, July 17th 1917.

 

WW2

 

Robert Stephen Allen Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

 

Born 18th April 1923, Cromer. Parents lived Suffield Park. Died from illness in the UK, 2nd March 1942. Buried in the Cemetery extension at Overstrand.

 

Cecil George Bacon Royal Navy

 

Born 16th January 1899, Thorpe Market, Norfolk. Married in Overstrand 1923. Lived Cromer. Lost when HMS Bullen was sunk by a guided torpedo in the Pentland Firth, Scotland, 6th December 1944.

 

Frank Charles Cork Royal Naval Patrol Service.

 

Born Overstrand 10th August 1897. Baptised and educated Overstrand. Lived as a child at “East Dene”, Cromer Road. Lived with his wife at Overstrand. Was lost when H.M Drifter Ocean Retriever struck a mine in the Thames Estuary, 22nd September 1943

 

Ronald Victor Dennis 6th Battalion Kings.Own.Scottish.Borderers

 

Born circa 1923 Overstrand and educated in the village. Parents subsequently lived Cromer. Killed in the crossing of the Rhine, 26th March 1945.

 

Ronald Ralph Golden 1st Battalion Royal Norfolk Regiment

 

Born Suffield Park 1917. He would also live in Suffield Park with his wife. Killed in an accident in the UK, 18th May 1943. Buried in the churchyard extension.

 

Alec Peter Gray Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.

 

Born 4th August 1919, Suffield Park. Killed in bombing attack on Castelrosso by enemy aircraft in 28th October 1943. Buried at Castelrosso, a small island East of Rhodes in the Mediterranean.

 

Frederick William Grout Royal Army Supply Corps

 

Born Southrepps circa 1904. Captured by the Japanese, probably during the fall of Java, and died a Prisoner of War in Japan. Overstrand connection not known.

 

Henry Thomas George Hubbard 218 Squadron Royal Air Force

 

Born 22nd March 1922, Suffield Park .Disappeared whilst on his first operational sortie - mine laying off the Frisian Islands.

 

Bernard Sharpin Royal Naval Patrol Service

 

Born 23rd October 1909 Cromer. Lived Cromer. Overstrand connection not known. Killed with H M Trawler “Marsona” struck a mine when clearing a channel off Cromarty into the Firth on 4th August 1940.

 

Robert Tarling 460 Squadron Royal Air Force

 

Born in Epping in Essex on 19th April 1924. Lived Cromer. Overstrand connection not known. Lost on his crews first operational flight over Berlin, 3rd December 1943.

 

Donald Frank Tyson Royal Army Supply Corps

 

Born 1st August 1907 at Grimsby. Family moved to Cromer by the 1911 census. Married and lived in Aylsham. Overstrand connection not known. Went missing during the chaos that was the fall of France sometime between the 17/05/1940 and 26/05/1940.

 

Colin Thomas Watson Royal Navy.

 

Born on 13th October 1918 at Cromer. Family lived Cromer. Overstrand connection not known. Killed when Troopship “Empress of Canada” was sunk on the 13th March 1943, returning from the Far East.

 

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