Lance Corporal 40035. "M Coy. 9th Battalion,, Norfolk Regiment. Killed in action Wednesday 18 October 1916. Age 27. Born Hindolveston. Enlisted Norwich. Son of Benjamin and Elizabeth Sophia Barsted, of 153, Hope House Yard, Hindolveston, Guist, Norfolk. Buried in BANCOURT BRITISH CEMETERY, Pas de Calais, France. Plot VIII. Row C. Grave 19.

Private 3/10624. 1st Battalion,, Norfolk Regiment. Killed in action Wednesday 21 April 1915. Age 29. Born and enlisted Hindolveston. Son of Mrs. Mary Ann Leamon, of 161, Station Rd., Hindolveston, Guist, Norfolk. No known grave. Commemorated on YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium Panel 4.

Private 3671. 1st/4th Battalion,, Norfolk Regiment. Died Friday 20 August 1915. Age 20. Born Hindolveston. Enlisted Aylsham. Son of Charles and Emily Codling, of Belsey Bridge, Ditchingham, Norfolk. No known grave. Commemorated on HELLES MEMORIAL, Turkey. Panel 42 to 44.

Private 6881. 1st Battalion,, Norfolk Regiment. Killed in action Sunday 25 October 1914. Age 33. Born Hindolveston. Enlisted Twyford, Hants. Son of the late Mr. and Mrs. G. Craske. No known grave. Commemorated on LE TOURET MEMORIAL, Pas de Calais, France. Panel 8.

Private 41710. 1st Battalion,, South Staffordshire Regiment. Killed in action Saturday 27 October 1917. Age 19. Born Eynsford, Norfolk. Lived Hindolveston. Enlisted Norwich. Son of William and Rosian Eke, of The Dies, Hindolveston, Guist, Norfolk. No known grave. Commemorated on TYNE COT MEMORIAL, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Panel 90 to 92 and 162 to 162A.

Lance Corporal G/15265. 11th Battalion,, Royal Sussex Regiment. Killed in action Saturday 21 October 1916. Age 20. Born Hindolveston. Enlisted East Dereham. Son of William John and Martha Ann Eke, of Ivy Cottage, Hindolveston, Guist, Norfolk. No known grave. Commemorated on THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, Somme, France. Pier and Face 7 C.

Corporal 22248. 9th Battalion,, Norfolk Regiment. Killed in action Friday 11 October 1918. Age 23. Born Hindolveston. Enlisted Norwich. Son of Edward and Sophia English, of 159, St. Hindolveston, Guist, Norfolk. No known grave. Commemorated on VIS-EN-ARTOIS MEMORIAL, Pas de Calais, France. Panel 4.

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Driver 207205. 2nd/48th Divisional Ammunition Col., Royal Field Artillery. Died Sunday 3 November 1918. Age 27. Lived Hindolveston. Enlisted Cromer. Son of Jonathan and Eliza Holsey, of Hindolveston; husband of Winifred Mary Holsey, of Hindolveston, Norfolk. Buried in MONTECCHIO PRECALCINO COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, Italy. Ref. Plot 7. Row C. Grave 5.

Private 328159. 1st Battalion,, Cambridgeshire Regiment. Formerly 6161 Norfolk Regiment. Killed in action Monday 27 August 1917. Age 25. Born Hindolveston. Enlisted Cromer. Son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Craske, of Green's Farm Cottage, Melton Constable, Norfolk. No known grave. Commemorated on TYNE COT MEMORIAL, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Panel 148.

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Private 47618. 16th Labour Coy., The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment.) transf. to (74096) 124th Coy. , Labour Corps. Died of wounds Sunday 2 September 1917. Age 37. Born Billingford. Lived Hindolveston. Enlisted Cromer. Husband of Mabel E. Margetson, of Bintree, Guist, Norfolk. Buried in POTIJZE CHATEAU GROUNDS CEMETERY, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Plot I. Row A. Grave 22.

In the 1911 census he was aged 19, born Wood Dalling, Norfolk, at school, son of Stephen Charles and Louisa Mears, resident Thurning, East Dereham, Norfolk. In the 1921 census he was aged 30, born Wood Dalling, Norfolk, a Farmer Labourer employed by James Hall (a Farmer), son of Stephen Charles and Louisa Mears, resident Hindolveston, Norfolk. Brother of George and Stephen (below).

Private 43248. 2nd/5th Battalion,, Lincolnshire Regiment. Killed in action Wednesday 26 September 1917. Age 25. Born Wood Dalling, Norfolk. Lived Hindolveston. Enlisted Cromer. Son of Stephen C. and Louisa Mears, of 92, The Common, Hindolveston, Guist, Norfolk. Brother of Bertie (above) amd Stephen (below). In the 1911 census he was aged 18, born Wood Dalling, Norfolk, at school, son of Stephen Charles and Louisa Mears, resident Thurning, East Dereham, Norfolk. No known grave. Commemorated on TYNE COT MEMORIAL, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Panel 35 to 37 and 162 to 162A.

In the 1911 census he was aged 11, born Wood Dalling, Norfolk, at school, son of Stephen Charles and Louisa Mears, resident Thurning, East Dereham, Norfolk. In the 1921 census he was aged 22, born Wood Dalling, Norfolk, a Farmer Labourer employed by James Hall (a Farmer), son of Stephen Charles and Louisa Mears, resident Hindolveston, Norfolk. Bother of George and Bertie (above).

Served in the South African (Boer) War with Thorneycroft's Mounted Infantry. Listed in the Norfolk Electoral Registers 1915 as resident Hindolveston at Hope house from Thornage. Listed in the Norfolk Electoral Registers 1919 as resident Hindolveston at Hope House with Sibella Porter. Buried 22 June 1942 in DURRINGTON CEMETERY, Worthing, Sussex.

Extract from England & Wales Government Probate Death Index 1942:

PORTER Claude Porter Gahan of 29 Eriswell-road Worthing died 18 June 1942 Probate Llandudno 13 August to Sibella Porter spinster. Effects £2096 16s.

Private 240613. 1st/5th Battalion,, Norfolk Regiment, Killed in action Thursday 19 April 1917. Age 20. Enlisted East Dereham. Son of Herbert and Marie Reeve, of Hope House Yard, Hindolveston, Guist, Norfolk. No known grave. Commemorated on JERUSALEM MEMORIAL, Israel. Panels 12 to 15.

Private G/5646. 9th Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment. Killed in action on Saturday 29 September 1917. Enlisted Hertford. Buried in HARGICOURT BRITISH CEMETERY, Aisne, France. Plot I. Row F. Grave 3.

From Andy Pay's research into the Marquis de Ruvigny's Roll of Honour, Volume 2, Part 4, Page 201, the following:

STRIKE, John William - Private, No 15646, 9th (Service) Battalion, The Royal Sussex Regiment. Son of Arthur Strike, of The Chequers, Hindolvestone, Journeyman Gardiner, by his wife, Sarah, dau. of W. Walton; born Hindolvestone, co. Norfolk, 27th Sept, 1891; educated there; on the outbreak of war volunteered for active service and enlisted in The Kings Royal Rifle Corps, 7th Sept. 1914; was discharged a month later as medically unfit; rejoined the 1st Battn. The Hertfordshire Regiment. in May 1915; served with The Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders fro July 1916, being transferred to the 13th Battn. The Sussex Regiment.; was wounded at Thiepval the following Oct. and invalided home; rejoined his Regiment 29th Dec, when he was transferred to the 9th Battn.; was again wounded at Vimy Ridge, 14th April and sent to hospital in France, and was killed in action near Gouzeacourt 29th Sept, 1917. Buried in Hargicourt British Cemetery. Unm.

Private 57579. 26th Battalion,, Royal Fusiliers. Formerly 21663 T.R. Battn. Killed in action Tuesday 2 April 1918. Born Great Snoring. Lived Melton Constable. Enlisted Cromer. No known grave. Commemorated on ARRAS MEMORIAL, Pas de Calais, France. Bay 3.

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