MOULTON ST MARY WAR MEMORIAL

World War 1 & 2 - Detailed Information
Compiled and Copyright © Lynda Smith - 2005

The village of Moulton St Mary is situated a mile or two south of Acle between Norwich and Great Yarmouth. There is a War memorial in the churchyard detailing casualties from both World Wars, and a hand-written Roll of Honour to The First World War inside the Church. The Roll of Honour which also names men from Beighton gives details not only of casualties, but also of those who served, and any injuries they may have received. For ease of research men from the First World War on the Roll of Honour as well as the War Memorial have been put together alphabetically in the list below. Please note some of the names on the Roll are not too easy to read, so there may be a few mistakes in the transcription. For more information and pictures of Moulton St Mary church please see Simon Knott’s Norfolk Church Website.

War Memorial in the Churchyard.

TO
THE GLORY OF GOD
AND IN
GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE OF THE
MEN OF MOULTON ST MARY
WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR
1914 – 1918
GEORGE ADAMS. NORFOLK REGT.
WILLIAM R. ECCLESTONE. NORFOLK REGT.
HARRY A. DU ROSE. NORFOLF YEO.
HERBERT J. DU ROSE. NORFOLK YEO.
LIEUT. BERTIE R.W. CHAPMAN. S. LANCS. REGT.
HORACE W. SHORTEN. R. FUSILIERS.
(For details of these men please see the Roll of Honour below)

THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE.

ALSO IN MEMORY OF
JOHN L. CATOR
ERIC J. GOOSE
WHO FELL IN THE 1939 – 1945 WAR

Roll of Honour in the Church

ROLL OF HONOUR
FOR BRITISH BOYS
OF MOULTON AND BEIGHTON

1914 – 1918

( Indicates killed in action or died)
(# Indicates listed on the memorial in the churchyard)

#	ADAMS	George	Private 14427. 9th Battalion Norfolk Regiment. Killed in action in France & Flanders on 28th October 1915. Born Moulton. Enlisted Norwich. Buried: La Brique Military Cemetery No.2, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Ref. I. G. 33.
	BLOWERS	Harry	Sergeant 8944, 1st Battalion, Coldstream Guards. No further information available at present.
	BLOWERS	Percy	Private 13471, 1st Battalion, Coldstream Guards. Wounded 1916 transferred to Private 661366, Labour Corps. No further information available at present.
	BROWN	Bernard	Royal Horse Artillery. No further information available at present.
	BROWN	Frederick	Private 26193. 8th Battalion Royal Fusiliers. Killed in action in France & Flanders on 4th August 1916. Born and lived North Burlingham, Norfolk. Enlisted Norwich. Commemorated: Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France. Pier and Face 8 C 9 A and 16 A.
	BROWN, DSM	John	Royal Navy. No further information available at present.
#	CHAPMAN	Bertie Robert Wyand	Second Lieutenant. 1st/4th Battalion South Lancashire Regiment. Died of wounds on 13th June 1918. Aged 36. Son of Robert and Elizabeth Matilda Chapman, of Moulton St. Mary, nr. Acle; husband of Bellina Chapman, of Beighton, nr. Acle, Norfolk. Buried: Etaples Military Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France. Ref. XXVIII. N. 6.
	CLEMENT	Charles E	Suffolk Regiment. Wounded. No further information available at present.
	CLEMENT	John H	Sergeant 3132, 13th Hussars. No further information available at present.
	CLEMENT	Reginald	Royal Navy. No further information available at present.
	CROFT	Lancelot	Sergeant 14987, Machine Gun Corps. Wounded 1917. No further information available at present.
#	DU ROSE	Harry A	Private 1434. 1st Battalion Norfolk Yeomanry. Died in Egypt on 7th December 1916. Born Hounslow, Middlesex. Lived Yiewsley R.S.O. Enlisted Norwich. Buried: Alexandria (Hadra) War Memorial Cemetery, Ref. D. 72.
#	DU ROSE	Herbert James	Private 205868. 6th Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment. Formerly 1484 Norfolk Yeomanry. Killed in action in France & Flanders on 31st August 1918. Aged 19. Born Stanwell, Middlesex. Enlisted Freethorpe, Norfolk. Stepson of Mrs. Emma Du Rose, of Knowle Green Cottage, Kingston Rd., Staines, Middx. Buried: Combles Communal Cemetery Extension, Somme, France. Ref. IV. A. 35.
	DU ROSE	Valentine O	Gunner 11994, 1st Battalion, Grenadier Guards. 3 wounds. Moved to the reserve. No further information available at present.
	EBBAGE	Samuel	Lance Corporal 20766. 2nd Battalion Essex Regiment. Formerly 17491 Norfolk Regiment. Killed in action in France & Flanders on 3rd May 1917. Born and lived Beighton. Enlisted Norwich. Commemorated: Arras Memorial, Pas de Calais, France. Bay 7.
	ECCLESTONE	Charles	Royal Navy. No further information available at present.
#	ECCLESTONE	William Robert	Private 22707. 7th Battalion Norfolk Regiment. Killed in action in France & Flanders on 13th August 1916. Aged 20. Born Moulton. Enlisted Norwich. Son of Charles and Bertha Ecclestone of Moulton St. Mary, Norwich. Norfolk. Buried: London Cemetery And Extension, Longueval, Somme, France. Ref. 3.C.15.
	ELVIN	Frank	14th Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regiment. No further information available at present.
	EVERSON	Eli	Acting Corporal 14626, Royal Field Artillery. No further information available at present.
	FIELD	John	Royal Field Artillery. No further information available at present.
	FORDER	Cuthbert	Private 13469, 4th Battalion, Coldstream Guards. No further information available at present.
	FROSDICK	George Ernest	Private 41541, 3rd Battalion, Essex Regiment. Severely wounded 1917. No further information available at present.
	GEDGE	Cyril	Royal Navy. No further information available at present.
	GEORGE	Ernest Bertie	Private 24344, 8th Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment. Prisoner of War 1918. No further information available at present.
	GILBERT	Alfred	Royal Navy. Discharged 1917. No further information available at present.
	GODFREY	William	Corporal O/7865. 124th Company Royal Army Ordnance Corps. Died on 17th November 1918. Mentioned in the Deanery magazine at the time of his death. Buried: Kirechkoi-Hortakoi Military Cemetery, Greece. Ref. 471. (The Roll of Honour indicates that William Godfrey died of illness.)
	GOODRUM	William	Royal Navy. No further information available at present.
	GRIMSON	Frank	Royal Navy. No further information available at present.
	GOOK	Robert William	Private 32485, Somerset Light Infantry formerly Private 18370, 10th Battalion, Norfolk Regiment. No further information available at present.
	GUNTON	Robert	Royal Navy. No further information available at present.
	HANTON	Charles	Royal Navy. No further information available at present.
	HANTON	John William	Royal Engineers (Transport) No further information available at present.
	HANTON	Major Fairfax	Royal Field Artillery. (It is not clear if "Major" is rank or first name). No further information available at present.
	HOLLIS	Cecil Victor	Royal Navy. No further information available at present.
	HOLLIS	Charles William	Royal Navy. No further information available at present.
	HOWES	Frederick	4th Battalion Norfolk Regiment. No further information available at present.
	HOWES	Lambert	Army Service Corps. No further information available at present.
	HOWES	William G.	Royal Engineers. No further information available at present.
	HUBBARD	Cecil William	Royal Navy. No further information available at present.
	HUBBARD	Edward	Army Service Corps. No further information available at present.
	HUBBARD	Frederick George	Royal Navy. Died of pneumonia 1918. No further information available at present.
	HUBBARD	James	Royal Navy. No further information available at present.
	KING	George Arthur	Royal Navy. No further information available at present.
	KING	James Walter	Army Service Corps. No further information available at present.
	LANGHAM	William	13th Royal Fusiliers. Wounded 1916. No further information available at present.
	LING	Alfred James	1st Norfolk Regiment. Wounded 1917. No further information available at present.
	LING	Harry	1st Norfolk Regiment. Wounded 1918. No further information available at present.
	LONDON	Harry	3rd/4th Royal Fusiliers. Wounded 1917. No further information available at present.
	LOWE?	George Ephraim	4th Battalion Norfolk Regiment. No further information available at present.
	MYHILL	George	Royal Navy. No further information available at present.
	MYHILL	Leonard John	Royal Engineers. No further information available at present.
	MYHILL	Lewis Ethelbert	Private 703681. 102nd Battalion Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment). Lewis (or Louis) Myhill was born on 1st March 1888 in Buckingham, Norfolk. In Canada he lived at Kingcome Inlet, British Columbia, where he worked as a gasoline engineer. His next of kin is given as his uncle, J. Grimson of Beighton, near Norwich. He died on 15th September 1916 and is buried at Reninghelst New Military Cemetery, Poperinge, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Ref. II. C. 11.
	MYHILL	Robert Francis	Queen Victoria’s Rifles. Wounded. No further information available at present.
	MYHILL	William	Private 15948. 1st/4th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment. Killed in action in France & Flanders on 1st August 1917. Born Cantley, Norfolk. Lived Beighton. Enlisted Norwich. Nephew of S. Grimson, of Beighton, Norwich. Buried: Philosophe British Cemetery, Mazingarbe, Pas de Calais, France. Ref. I. U. 5.
	NEVILL	Richard H.R.	Captain, 8th Battalion & H.Q., Norfolk Regiment. No further information available at present.
	NEWTON	Albert Victor	Royal Field Artillery. Wounded. No further information available at present.
	PATTERSON	George Albert	10th Norfolk Regiment. Discharged. No further information available at present.
	PITCHER	George	Royal Engineers (Water Transport) No further information available at present.
	RANSOME	George Edward	Royal Engineers. No further information available at present.
	RANSOME	William	Royal Marines. No further information available at present.
	READ	George Futter	10th Battalion Essex Regiment. Wounded 1917. No further information available at present.
	READ	Herbert Futter	5th Battalion Norfolk Regiment. No further information available at present.
	READ	Robert Futter	3rd Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment. Discharged. No further information available at present.
	ROSE	Frederick James	Royal Horse Artillery. No further information available at present.
	ROSE	William D	Private 29909. 2nd Battalion The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment. Formerly 17284 Norfolk Regiment. Killed in action in France & Flanders on 31st October 1918. Born Strumpshaw, Norfolk. Lived Beighton. Enlisted Norwich. Commemorated: Ingoyghem Military Cemetery, Anzegem, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Sp. Mem. 2.
#	SHORTEN	Horace William	Private 76166. Posted to 2nd/4th Battalion London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers). Formerly 21264. 2nd Battalion Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regiment. Killed in action in France & Flanders on 8th August 1918. Aged 27. Born and lived Moulton, Norfolk. Enlisted Norwich. Son of Mr. and Mrs. R. Shorten, of Moulton St. Mary; husband of E. E. Frosdick (formerly Shorten), of The Old Hall, Moulton St. Mary, Norwich. Commemorated: Vis-En-Artois Memorial, Pas de Calais, France. Panel 3.
	SHORTEN	Robert Alfred	4th Battalion Norfolk Regiment. No further information available at present.
	SMITH	James	Royal Navy. No further information available at present.
	SMITH	Robert Richard	Royal Navy. Discharged 1918. No further information available at present.
	SMITH	William	Royal Navy. Discharged 1915. No further information available at present.
	SPOONER	Albert Howard	Royal Garrison Artillery. No further information available at present.
	SPOONER	Hubert Howard	Royal Navy. Invalided home 1915. Died 1917. No further information available at present.
	WEBB	James	Royal Navy. No further information available at present.
	WEBB	John William	Royal Navy. No further information available at present.
	WEBB	William Reginald	Royal Warwickshire Regiment. No further information available at present.
	WHITE	Frederick John	8th Royal Irish Rifles. Severely wounded. Discharged 1917. No further information available at present.
	WILSON	John Benjamin	1st Battalion Life Guards. No further information available at present.
	WRIGHT	Albert Edward	Royal Engineers. Discharged. No further information available at present.
	WRIGHT	Frank	Royal Engineers. No further information available at present.
	WRIGHT	Frank Gerald	Middlesex Regiment. Wounded 1918. No further information available at present.
	WYMER	Dennis	Army Service Corps (Artist’s Rifles). No further information available at present.
	WYMER	Frederick	Royal Navy. No further information available at present.
	WYMER	Walter	2nd Battalion Coldstream Guards. Seriously wounded 1916(?). No further information available at present.

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Last updated 28 March, 2007