
GOODERSTONE
WAR MEMORIAL
World
War 1 & 2 - Detailed Information
Compiled and Copyright © Recorded by Mick Tilley. Researched by Lynda
Smith- 2003
Gooderstone
is a village south west of Swaffham. There are two memorials, one in
the village and the other in the church. The same names appear on the
memorial and on a framed Roll of Honour within the church of St george,
Gooderstone.
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Photograph
Copyright © David Hanwell 2009 |
IN
MEMORY OF
THE GOODERSTONE MEN
FALLEN IN THE GREAT WAR
1914 - 1918
BARRETT |
(Samuel)
Edward |
Private
10254. 6th Battalion,, Lincolnshire Regiment. Killed in action Friday 3
September 1915. Age 25. Born Middleton. Enlisted Boston, Lincs.
Lived Stoke Ferry. Son of Mr. R. and Mrs. H. Barrett, of South Gooderstone,
Stoke Ferry, Norfolk. Buried in HILL 10 CEMETERY, Turkey. Ref. I.
I. 10. |
BROWN |
Edgar
Frank |
Private
27821. 2nd Battalion,, Royal Dublin Fusiliers. Formerly 17723 Norfolk Regiment.
Died of wounds Thursday 5 October 1916. Age 28. Born and lived Gooderstone.
Enlisted Norwich. Son of Francis Robert and Sarah Ann Brown, of
Gooderstone, Stoke Ferry, Norfolk. Buried in LAHANA MILITARY CEMETERY,
Greece. Ref. I. B. 18. |
BURT |
John
William Gurth |
Lance
Corporal 9083. 3rd Dragoon Guards (Prince of Wales' Own). Killed
in action Saturday 23 March 1918. Age 21. Born Gooderstone Ferry.
Lived Gooderstone. Enlisted Stratford. Only son of James Edward
and Bertha Burt, of Beachamwell, King's Lynn, Norfolk. No known grave. Commemorated on
POZIERES MEMORIAL, Somme, France. Panel 1 and 2.
He
is also commemorated on his grandfather's grave in the churchyard:
In
loving memory of
WIlliam WARNER
whodied Aug 23rd 1917
aged 80 years
also in loving memory of
Gurth
the beloved on son of
Edward & Bertha BURT
& grandson of the above
who was killed in action in France
March 23rd 1918, in his 21st year.
He answered his Master's call. |
CALVER |
Ernest
Edwin |
Corporal
G/4075. 13th Battalion,, Royal Sussex Regiment. Killed in action
Saturday 21 October 1916. Age 23. Born Swaffham. Enlisted London.
Son of Edgar and Maria Calver, of Gooderstone; husband of Margaret
Calver, of Globe Hill, Swaffham, Norfolk. No known grave. Commemorated
on THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, Somme, France. Pier and Face 7 C.

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COOK |
Victor |
Lance
Corporal 46542. 164th Coy., Machine Gun Corps. Formerly G/11726
Royal Sussex Regiment. Died of wounds Friday 6 July 1917. Born Clapham.
Lived Stoke Ferry. Enlisted Norwich. Buried in VLAMERTINGHE NEW MILITARY
CEMETERY, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Ref. I. F. 16. |
CROME |
George
Frederick |
Private
29591. 10th Battalion,, Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment). Killed
in action Friday 12 July 1918. Age 19. Born Barton Bendish. Enlisted
Norwich. Son of Harry and Sarah Crome, of 23, Barton Bendish, King's
Lynn. Buried in LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY, Poperinge, West-Vlaanderen,
Belgium. Ref. XXVIII. D. 6. |
DIXON |
Albert
Victor |
Gunner
105212. 208th Siege Bty., Royal Garrison Artillery. Died of wounds
Wednesday 27 December 1916. Age 38. Born Takley, Warwickshire. Lived
Lound, Suffolk. Enlisted Lowestoft. Son of Thomas and Harriett Dixon,
of Gooderstone, Stoke Ferry, Norfolk; husband of Rosetta Dixon,
of 3, Rosemary Lane, Beccles, Suffolk. Buried in GROVE TOWN CEMETERY,
MEAULTE, Somme, France. Ref. II. J. 13. |
DODD |
Victor |
Private
6500. 1st Battalion,, Norfolk Regiment. Killed in action Friday
20 November 1914. Age 33. Born Gooderstone. Enlisted Norwich. Son
of Hagar Dodd, of Gooderstone, Stoke Ferry, Norfolk, and the late
Henry William Dodd; husband of Florence Lilian England (formerly
Dodd), of 646, Barking Rd., Plaistow, London. Served in the South
African Campaign. No known grave. Commemorated on YPRES (MENIN GATE)
MEMORIAL, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Panel 4.
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FLATT |
Walter |
Private
28871. 2nd Battalion,, Bedfordshire Regiment. Killed in action Friday 22
March 1918. Age 36. Born Methwold. Liver Gooderstone. Enlisted Norwich.
Son of William and Frances Ellen Flatt, of Gooderstone, King's Lynn,
Norfolk. No known grave. Commemorated on POZIERES MEMORIAL, Somme, France. Panel 28
and 29. |
LAMBERT |
Horace
Edward |
Private
36585. 6th Battalion,, Royal Berkshire Regiment. Formerly 4308 Cambridgeshire
Regiment. Killed in action Thursday 28 September 1916. Born Gooderstone.
Lived Walsoken. Enlisted Wisbech. No known grave. Commemorated on
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, Somme, France. Pier and Face 11 D.

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MOUNTAIN |
Arthur |
No
further information available at present. |
PALMER |
Herbert |
No
further information available at present. |
PALMER |
Frederick |
Rifleman
S/14070. 12th Battalion,, Rifle Brigade. Killed in action Tuesday
6 June 1916. Born and lived Stoke Ferry. Enlisted Finsbury, Middlesex.
No known grave. Commemorated on YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL, Ieper,
West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Panel 46 - 48 and 50

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SAYER(S) |
Baker
C |
Private
17742. 2nd Battalion,, Norfolk Regiment. Died Saturday 22 July 1916. Born
Methwold. Enlisted Norwich. Buried in BASRA WAR CEMETERY, Iraq. Ref.
VI. E. 13. |
SAYER(S) |
William
Henry |
Private
29861. 9th Battalion,, Norfolk Regiment. Killed in action Thursday 19 April
1917. Born Stoke Ferry. Enlisted East Dereham. Buried in VERMELLES
BRITISH CEMETERY, Pas de Calais, France. Ref. VI. B. 2. |
SHINN |
Holman |
Probably:
Robert Holman Shinn. Private 7974. 2nd Battalion,, Norfolk Regiment.
Died of wounds Monday 6 March 1916. Age 24. enlisted Norwich. Son
of Francis R. Shinn, of East Bilney, East Dereham, Norfolk. Born
at Necton. Buried in KUT WAR CEMETERY, Iraq N. 3. |
TUDDENHAM |
Arthur
Sydney |
Private
34451. 1st Battalion,, Northumberland Fusiliers. Formerly 31496 Gen. Serv.
Cav. Died of wounds Monday 14 May 1917. Born Gooderstone. Enlisted
Louth, Lincs. Husband of A. Tuddenham, of Fincham, Downham, Norfolk.
Buried in DUISANS BRITISH CEMETERY, ETRUN, Pas de Calais, France IV.
G. 37. |
WARNER |
Ernest
A |
No
further information available at present. |
WOOLSEY |
Ernest
William |
Sergeant
D/19548, 1st (Royal) Dragoons formerly 5925, Dragoon Guards. Died
25 November 1918. Aged 34. Born approx 1885 the illegitimate son
of Harriet Woolsey, birth registered January to March Quarter 1885
in the Swaffham Registration District, Norfolk. Son of Mrs. Harriet
Sheldrake, of High St., Kintbury, Hungerford. In the 1901 census
he was aged 16, born Gooderstone, Norfolk, an Agricultural Labourer,
granson of Maria Woolsey (a widow), resident 8, Chalk Row, Gooderstone,
Swaffham, Norfolk. In the 1911 census he was aged 26, single, Lance
Corporal, 1st Dragoon Gaurds, born Gooderstone, Norfolk. Buried
in ALDERSHOT MILITARY CEMETERY, Hampshire. Plot R. Grave 354. |
1939
- 1945 |
ADCOCK |
Herbert |
Corporal
5772198. 18th (5th Battalion, The Loyal Regiment.) Regiment., Reconnaissance
Corps. Formerly of 1st Battalion,, Royal Norfolk Regiment. Died
Tuesday 12 September 1944. Age 26. Son of William and Mildred Adcock,
of Goodestone, Norfolk. No known grave. Commemorated on SINGAPORE
MEMORIAL, Singapore. Column 1.

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ADCOCK |
Bernard |
Stoker
1st Class C/KX88505. H.M.S. Sphinx, Royal Navy. Died Sunday 4 February
1940. Age 22. Son of William and Agnes Amelia Adcock, of Gooderstone,
Norfolk. Buried in WICK CEMETERY, Caithnesshire, United Kingdom.
Ref. Sec. O. Coll. grave 15.
Special
note: HMS Sphinx was a minesweeper. She was sunk by German bombers
off north-eastern Scotland. |
WATERS |
Herbert
Robert Ernest |
WALTERS
on Roll of Honour in church. Corporal 5772652. 7th Battalion,, Royal Norfolk
Regiment. Died Thursday 29 May 1941. Age 23. Son of Herbert and
Elizabeth Maria Waters, of Gooderstone, Norfolk. Buried in POZNAN
OLD GARRISON CEMETERY, Poland. Ref. 1. AA. 10. |
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11 March, 2022
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