Roll of Honour - Suffolk

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The Royal British Legion

DENNINGTON WAR MEMORIAL

World War 1 & 2. Roll of Honour with detailed information
Compiled and copyright © Stuart Green 2006

The War Memorials are situated in St. Mary's parish church. The World War 1 memorial is in the form of a portland stone tablet with inset bronze reliefs and contains the names of 20 men, it cost £100 raised by public subscription and was unveiled on 19 September 1920 by the Rt. Hon. The Earl of Stradbroke; the architect was Mr Hibbert Binney, RBA, RBS (Architect). This was reported in East Anglian Daily Times 20 September 1920. The Second World War memorial is a white, stone tablet and contains the names of 6 men and was unveiled on 18 February 1948.

Dennington - WW1 © Doug Ireland (WMR-5480)

Dennington - WW2 © Doug Ireland (WMR-5481)

1914 — THE GREAT WAR — 1918

ON THIS STONE WE THE VILLAGERS OF DENNINGTON
RECORD OUR DEEP DEBT OF LOVE AND GRATITUDE
TO THOSE FROM THIS PARISH WHO LOST THEIR LIVES
FIGHTING FOR US AND OUR COUNTRY AND OUR FIRM
BELIEF THAT FROM THEIR GLORIOUS DEATH THEY
WILL ATTAIN UNTO LIFE EVERLASTING AMEN

1914-1918

ALDOUS	William	Lance Corporal 13122, 9th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment. Died 19/10/1917. Age 27. Son of William and Charlotte Aldous of Little Green, Saxted. Commemorated on the Arras Memorial
BECK	John	Private 3371, 5th Battalion, Yorkshire Regiment. Died 17/09/1916. Resident of Framlingham. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial
BLOSS	John	Private 15015, 10th Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales’ Own). Died 28/07/1916. Age 20. Son of Zechariah and Rose Ellen Bloss of Dennington. Buried at Daours Communal Cemetery Extension
DAVEY	Charles	Private 14992, 8th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment. Died 26/09/1916. Born Brundish. Buried at Blighty Valley Cemetery, Authuile Wood
FISK	Reuben	Private 18130, 7th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment. Died 20/11/1917. Born Dennington. Commemorated on the Cambrai Memorial, Louverval
FULLER	Charles	Believed to be Private 3/9220, 3rd Battalion, Suffolk Regiment. Died 12/02/1916. Age 28. Buried at Ipswich Cemetery. Private Fuller’s death is recorded at Woodbridge
GODBOLD	Arthur Edward	Private 43721, 2nd Battalion, Suffolk Regiment. Died 13/11/1916. Son of George & Annie (nee Hall) Godbold. Born Dennington June 1891. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial
HOWARD	Herbert Walter	Private 33887, 9th Battalion, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles). Died 05/04/1918. Age 19. Son of Alfred William and Anne Howard of 19 Keston Road, Peckham, London. Native of Dennington. Commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial
JOHNSON	Harry Jubilee	[Sometimes spelled Johnston by CWGC) Lance Corporal 37577, 135th Company, Machine Gun Corps (Infantry). Killed in action in Mesopotamia 16 December 1916. Aged 19. Born Framlingham, enlisted Ipswich, resident Dennington. Son of the late William Johns(t)on and Elizabeth Mabel Bridges (formerly Johns(t)on) of Tannington – given as born at Framlingham. Formerly 2321, Suffolk Regiment. He was living at Dennington prior to enlisting. Buried in Amara War Cemetery, Iraq. Plot XVI. Row J. Grave 5. Also listed on the Framlingham War Memorial page
LEEK	Albert Victor	Private 200780, 4th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment. Died 26/09/1917. Age 19. Son of William and Charlotte Leek of Glenfield Cottage, Dennington. Commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial
LEEPER	George	Private, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles). Died 4th Quarter 1918. Age 35. Born in Brundish circa 1883, son of George & Mary Ann Leeper (nee Briggs, resident of Riccall, Yorkshire. Place of burial unknown. George Leeper was a servant at Riccall in Yorkshire prior to the war. His death is recorded at Hartismere from untreated diabetes. His name is not recorded in either the Commonwealth War Graves Commission list or Soldiers Died in the Great War volumes
LEEPER	Arthur John	Believed to be Private 27869, 6th Battalion, Royal Dublin Fusiliers. Died 13/10/1918. Age 25. Born Brundish, resident of Dennington. Buried at St Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen. The Dennington War Memorial list as Private A Leeper, Norfolk Regiment
MEADOWS	Ernest William	Sergeant 200350, 1st Battalion, Cambridgeshire Regiment. Killed in action 22 March 1918. Born Dennington, enlisted Framlingham. Formerly 1918, Suffolk Regiment. No known grave. Commemorated on the Pozieres Memorial, Somme, France. Panel 84 and 85. Sergeant Meadows is also commemorated on the Framlingham War Memorial
PIPE	Claude William	Private 34602, 32nd Battalion, Royal Fusiliers. Died 10/10/1916. Born Dennington. Buried at the A.I.F. Burial Ground, Flers
PIPE	Clarence William	Private 40890, 2nd Battalion, Suffolk Regiment. Died 11/04/1917. Age 39. Born Dennington. Husband of Ethel Maud Pipe of Mount Pleasant, Cransford. Commemorated on the Arras Memorial
SEGGONS	Charles Robert	Lance Corporal 13473, 9th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment. Died 16/09/1916. Age 24. Son of Mr and Mrs Robert Seggons of Dennington Place, Dennington. Buried at Serre Road Cemetery No 2
STEARN	Herbert	Sergeant 3267, 4th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment. Died 28/02/1917. Age 21. Son of John Thomas Stearn and Mrs Amelia Matilda Stearn (nee Harper) of Hill Farm, Badingham. Native of Dennington. Buried at Sailly-Saillisel British Cemetery
STEARN	Percy Gordon	Private 27884, 1st Battalion, Northampton Regiment. Died 30/12/1918. Age 21. Son of Chester and Anna Stearn of Dennington. Buried at Les Baraques Military Cemetery
STUDD	William John	Private 20611, 9th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment. Died 23/02/1916. Age 17. Son of John and Esther Studd of Dennington. Buried at Longueness (St Omer) Souvenir Cemetery
WRIGHT	Edward Emsley	Private 20507, 7th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment. Died 09/08/1916. Son of Mrs Ellen Pipe of Stone Street, Spexhall, Halesworth. Born Dennington. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial
HE THAT LOSETH HIS LIFE SHALL FIND IT
1939 THE SECOND GREAT WAR 1945
CHENERY	Gordon	Private 6013687, 5th Battalion, Essex Regiment. Died 20/12/1943. Age 24. Son of Oscar John and Ethel A Chenery of Brundish. Buried at the Sangro River War Cemetery
EMENY	Dick	Flight Sergeant (Wireless Operator/Air Gunner) 650193, 218 Sqaudron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. Died 10/09/1942. Age 25. Son of Leonard Ernest and Dorothy Sarah Emeny, husband of Edith Lucy (nee SAIT) Emeny, one son. Cousin of Heston Jack Emeny (below). Buried at Bergen-Op-Zoom War Cemetery, Netherlands 2. Early in 1941, 218 Squadron was equipped with Wellington long-range aircraft, to become a heavy-bomber squadron. Its targets were of the widest variety. from industrial centres, railways, Noball (V-weapon) sites and gun batteries, to the Channel ports, oil and petrol installations, and concentrations of troops and armour. The squadron was re-equipped with Stirling four-engined bombers (the first of the real "heavies) beginning in December 1941. three months after His Excellency the Governor of the Gold Coast and the peoples of the Gold Coast territories officially adopted the squadron
EMENY	Heston Jack	Able Seaman C/JX 336495, Royal Navy, SS Empire Sky. Died 14/11/1942. Cousin of Dick Emeny (above). Commemorated on the Chatham Naval Memorial. The cargo vessel SS Empire Sky was lost with all hands off the North Russian coast in November 1942, the cause of her loss is unknown.
KING	Albert Lionel	Private 5827312, 1st Battalion, Suffolk Regiment. Died 24/05/1940. Age 21. Son of Mrs C A Aldous of Dennington. Buried at Cretinier Cemetery, Wattrelos
WARD	Cyril Albert	Warrant Officer Class II (Company Sergeant Major) 5825234, 5th Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment. Died 04/11/1943. Age 32. Son of Cyril A and Mary Louisa Ward. husband of Edna Ward of Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex. Buried at the Sangro River War Cemetery
WHITING	Miss Doris [E]	NAAFI. Died of tuberculosis. Death recorded in the October to December Quarter 1943 in the Deben Registration District, Suffolk, aged 28.

Last updated 5 July, 2023

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