Feltwell War Memorial - Great War Face 3

            E.E. LAWS, 11TH BORDER REGT.
T.S. NORBURY, R.A.S.C.
S. PAYNE, ROYAL INNIS. FUS.
C.W. PEARSON, 8TH NORFOLK REGT.
G.A. PAYNE, 4TH NORFOLK REGT.
W. PEAK, COLDSTREAM GRDS.
J.T. ROLFE, KINGS ROYAL RIFLES
T. SMITH, R.A.S.C.
A. SOUTHGATE, 9TH NORFOLK REGT.
A. SOUTHGATE, 1ST ESSEX.
A.J. SPENCER, 2/5TH SHERWOOD FSTRS.

F.W. UPCRAFT, QUEENS ROYAL W.S.
C.W. VINCENT, 9TH YORKS. REGT.
P. VALE, 1ST NORFOLK REGT.
J.W. WHISTLER, 13TH ROYAL FUS.
A.E. WILLETT, 7TH NORFOLK REGT.
T.W. WILLETT, 3RD ESSEX
F.J. WILKIN, 1ST LANCASHIRE FUS.
W.A. WILKIN, 3RD NORFOLK REGT.
A. WILSON, R.A.M.C.
P. WING, LOYAL NORTH-LANCS
P.W. WRIGHT, 88TH BATTERY R.F.A.                  

The large village of Feltwell in the aouth west of Norfolk has two medieval churches – St Mary and St Nicholas. This is not uncommon and probably reflects the wealth there was in the county at a time when Norwich was the third city of the kingdom. Both were in regular use until the seventies, although St Nicholas is now in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

What is unusual – at least in my experience – is that rather than having a parish of their own, both churches serve a single parish. Thus when it came to researching the names on the war memorial it was impossible to tell which of the two churches individual were baptised or married in. Similarly when it came to checking out the census details. If this was a village with two parishes then I would expect villagers to proudly tell the census taker they were born Feltwell St Mary or Feltwell St Nicholas – indeed some of the zealous or more partisan might drop the Feltwell altogether. But here everyone I investigated was born and\or lived Feltwell.

St. Nicholas also has the larger and more contemporary graveyard – you will struggle to find anyone from the 20th Century was the feeling I got when I looked around the churchyard at St Mary. It is the location for a large collection of WW2 graves relating to RAF Feltwell that I will eventually get round to transcribing and researching and posting on Flickr, but for now my focus is on the Great War and the coming centennial celebration of the armistice. If you’re after a picture of one of those then flickrmail me.

The Civil Registration District for registering Births, Deaths and Marriages was the Thetford District, which spanned the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk.
Between the 1901 census and the 1911 census the registration District changed to Swaffham as far at the census enumerators were concerned but births and marriages still seemed to have registered in the Thetford District.

Neighbouring villages include Methwold, (aka Methwold Hythe), Hockwold, (including Hockwold Fen and Hockwold Blackdyke and Hockwold Whitedyke), Wilton, Northwold and Southery. With a change in settlement patterns, Hockwold and Wilton have merged to become Hockwold-cum-Wilton.

Abbreviations used.
CWGC - Commonwealth War Graves Commission
SDGW – Soldiers Died in the Great War
IRC – International Red Cross
MIC – Medal Index Card

For more on each name see the comments below

   

Taken in: United Kingdom / England / Feltwell (show map)

Taken on: June 13, 2018

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Ernest Edward Laws

11th Battalion Border Regiment

Thomas Norbury

Thomas Spinks Norbury

Army Service Corps attached 1st/4th Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps

George Payne

George Albert Payne

1st/4th Battalion Norfolk Regiment

Sydney Payne

Sidney Payne

1st Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers

William Peak

2nd Battalion Coldstream Guards

C W Pearson

8th Battalion Norfolk Regiment

John Rolfe

John Thomas Rolfe

2nd Battalion King's Royal Rifle Corps

Thomas Smith

34th Reserve Park Army Service Corps

Archie Southgate

Archibald Southgate

Archie Robert Southgate

1st Battalion Essex Regiment

Arthur Southgate

9th Battalion Norfolk Regiment

Albert Spencer

Albert John Spencer

2nd/5th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)

Frederick Upcraft

Frederick Walter Upcraft

2nd Battalion The Queens Royal West Surrey Regiment

Percy Vale

1st Battalion Norfolk Regiment

Charles Vincent

Charles William Vincent

9th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment

James Whistler

James William Whistler

13th Battalion Royal Fusiliers

Frederick Wilkin

1st Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers

Walter Wilkin

Walter Albert Cole Wilkin

428th Agricultural Company Labour Corps

Albert Willett

Albert Edward Willett

7th Battalion Norfolk Regiment

Thomas Willett

Thomas William Willett

13/08/1915

Alfred Wilson

1st Cavalry Division Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps

Percy Wing

2nd Battalion The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment

Percy Wright

88th Battery 14th Army Brigade Royal Field Artillery

19/04/1917

20/11/1917

21/10/1914

12/11/1917

18/10/1916 « less

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