
KIRSTEAD
GREEN WAR MEMORIAL
World
War 1 & 2 - Detailed Information
Compiled
and copyright © 2004 - Transcribed Carolynn Langley; researched Lynda
Smith
This
village is situated in the south-east of Norfolk between Beccles and
Poringland. Some of the records on the SDGW CD spell the village as
KIRKSTEAD. The War Memorial is to the right of St Margaret’s
Churchyard.
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Photograph
Copyright © Carolynn Langley - 2004 |
IN
HONORED MEMORY OF THE MEN OF THIS PARISH
AND SOME NEIGHBOURS
WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR
1914 – 1918
MAY THEY REST IN PEACE.
ANDREWS |
Robert
Charles |
Private
20641. 1st Battalion Essex Regiment. Formerly 17717 Norfolk Regiment.
Died at sea on 13th August 1915. Born Swainsthorpe, Norfolk. Lived
Kirstead. Enlisted Norwich. Commemorated: Helles Memorial, Turkey.
Panel 144 to 150 or 229 to 233. |
BURGESS |
Charles |
Able
Seaman R/3039. Hawke Battalion, Royal Navy Division, Royal Naval
Volunteer Reserve. Died on 3rd September 1918. Aged 29. Son of the
late William and Rachel Burgess; husband of Ellen E. Burgess, of
Loddon Comer, Kirstead, Brooke, Norwich. Commemorated: Vis-En-Artois
Memorial, Pas de Calais, France. Panel 1 and 2. |
COPEMAN |
Robert |
Lance
Corporal (Memorial has Private) 13764. 8th Battalion Norfolk Regiment.
Died of wounds at home on 10th December 1916. Aged 23. Born St James’
Suffolk. Enlisted Norwich. Buried: Mundham (St. Peter) Churchyard,
Norfolk. North of Church. |
DEADMAN
|
Alfred
Joseph |
Private
F/1096. 17th Battalion Duke of Cambridge’s Own Middlesex Regiment.
Killed in action in France & Flanders on 1st August 1916. aged 31.
Born Southfields Surrey. Enlisted London. Son of George and Elizabeth
Deadman, of Fernhurst, Haslemere, Surrey; husband of Bessie L. Deadman,
of The Ling, Kirstead, Norwich. Buried: Quarry Cemetery, Montauban,
Somme, France. Ref. III. E. 3. |
FISKE |
Ernest
Henry |
Private
43196. 1st Battalion Norfolk Regiment. Killed in action in France
& Flanders on 4th September 1916. Aged 20. Born Caistor, Norfolk.
Enlisted Woodton, Norfolk. Grandson of Mrs. H. C. Pitelen, of 41,
Kirstead Ling, Brooke, Norwich. Buried: Delville Wood Cemetery,
Longueval, Somme, France. Ref. XXIV. K. 1. |
HALL |
Dudley
Walter Rowland |
Lieutenant.
1st R.M. Battalion, R.N. Div. Royal Marine Light Infantry. Died
on 27th March 1918. Aged 26. Son of the Rev. Thomas Rowland Hall
and Flora Lucy Hall, of 10, Northcote Avenue, Ealing, London; late
of Kirstead Rectory, Norfolk. Buried: St. Sever Cemetery, Rouen,
France. Ref. Officers, B. 8. 9. |
KEEBLE |
Augustus |
Private
13821. 8th Battalion Norfolk Regiment. Killed in action in France
& Flanders on 22nd October 1916. Born Stradbroke, Suffolk. Enlisted
Norwich. Commemorated: Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France. Pier and
Face 1 C and 1 D. |
LAWRENCE
|
Arthur
James Daniel |
Private
18331. (CWGC gives 8502). 2nd Battalion Norfolk Regiment. Died in
Mesopotamia on 29th November 1916. Born Ranworth. Enlisted Norwich.
Son of James Lawrence, of Ling, Kirstead, Brooke, Norwich. Buried:
Baghdad (North Gate) War Cemetery, Iraq. Ref. XXI. M. 12. |
LAWRENCE
|
John
George Sidney |
Private
13400. 9th Battalion Norfolk Regiment. Died of wounds in France
& Flanders on 20th September 1918. Aged 24. Born Longham, Norfolk.
Enlisted Norwich. Son of James and Sarah Lawrence, of 40, The Ling,
Kirstead, Brooke, Norwich. Buried: Brie British Cemetery, Somme,
France. Ref. II. D. 2. |
PYE |
Leonard
John |
Private
43391. 5th Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment. Formerly 959 Norfolk
Regiment (Cyclists). Died of wounds in France & Flanders on 2nd
December 1917. Aged 21. Born Seething. Enlisted Woodton. Son of
Henry and Eleanor Pye, of Kirstead School, Norwich. Buried: Tincourt
New British Cemetery, Somme, France. Ref. III. E. 1. |
REEVE |
Thomas
Bertie Read |
Private
29281. 1/7th Battalion Warwickshire Regiment. Formerly 27355 Norfolk
Regiment. Killed in action in France & Flanders on 28th August 1917.
Aged 19. Born Stediham, Norfolk. Lived Kirstead Brook, Norfolk.
Enlisted Wroxham. Son of Bertie and Caroline Read Reeve, of Kirstead,
Brooke, Norwich. Buried: Artillery Wood Cemetery, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen,
Belgium. Ref. VI. D. 1. |
RICHES |
Herbert
Henry |
Private
G/21243. 2nd Battalion Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regiment. Formerly
19778 East Surrey Regiment. Killed in action in France & Flanders
on 2nd April 1917. Born Kirstead. Lived Seething. Enlisted Norwich.
Buried: Croisilles British Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France. Ref.
I. A. 24. |
RINGER
|
Cecil
Barnard |
Gunner
36015. 86th Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery. Died in The
Persian Gulf on 23rd December 1915. Born Langford, Norfolk. Enlisted
Norwich. Buried: Kut War Cemetery, Iraq. Ref. P. 17. |
TAYLOR
|
Albert
William |
Private
16836. 1st Battalion Norfolk Regiment. Killed in action in France
& Flanders on 4th June 1916. Aged 28. Born Kirkstead. Enlisted Norwich.
Son of Mrs. M. A. Taylor, of 42, Kirstead Ling, Brooke, Norwich.
Buried: Faubourg D'Amiens Cemetery, Arras, Pas de Calais, France.
Ref. I. C. 21. |
TAYLOR
|
George
Alfred |
[SDGW
CD & CWGC has Alfred George] Private 13326. 8th Battalion Norfolk
Regiment. Killed in action in France & Flanders on 19th July 1916.
Born Kirkstead. Enlisted Norwich. Commemorated: Thiepval Memorial,
Somme, France. Pier and Face 1 C and 1 D. |
TAYLOR
|
Ernest
Edward |
Private
3/7059. 7th Battalion Norfolk Regiment, attd. 160th Company Royal
Engineers. Killed in action in France & Flanders on 21st June 1916.
Aged 23. Born Kirkstead. Enlisted Norwich. Son of Mrs. M. A. Taylor
and the late J. Taylor, of 42, Birstead Ling, Norwich. Buried: Vermelles
British Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France. Ref. IV. B. 14. |
TODD |
Harry |
Private
14370. 9th Battalion Norfolk Regiment. Died of wounds in France
& Flanders on 1st April 1916. (CWGC gives 1st November 1916). Aged
23. Born Kirstead. Enlisted Norwich. Son of John and Anna Maria
Todd, of Kirstead, nr. Brooke, Norwich. Buried: Abbeville Communal
Cemetery Extension, Somme, France. Ref. I. J. 7. |
1939
– 1945
|
JOHNSTONE |
Robert
Walton |
Major
130600. 2nd Battalion Seaforth Highlanders. Died on 27th October
1942. Aged 30. Son of James and Emma Johnstone, of Kirstead, Norfolk.
Buried: El Alamein War Cemetery, Egypt. Ref. XI. C. 3. |
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