211. Lucy and Ivy Hoy in the Land Army in World War 1, and on the horse is their father Henry (Harry) Hoy.
Date: c1918
Image ID HH06_301

212. Sailors home on leave during WW1, at Haycock's Farm. Henry Hoy on the left. Archibald Percy Green on the horse. He was killed 18 October 1918 when HMS INDUSTRY ...
Date: c1918
Image ID HH06_303

213. Percy Green, married to Lucy Hoy. Harris Hoy's best made, killed around the same time during the 1914-18 war, torpedoed in Irish Sea.
Archibald Percy Green ...
Image ID HH06_315

214. Letter from Harry James Hoy to Ivy Hoy
Sgt. H. Hoy 25696

Dear Sister,
Many thanks for your loving letter and book and I am very pleased to ...
Date: 28 September 1917
Image ID HJH_011_003

215. Miss Ivy Hoy,
Haycocks Farm changed to St Peters Cottage
East Mersea changed to West Mersea

Envelope for letter from Harry James Hoy to Ivy ...
Date: 10 October 2019
Image ID HJH_013_001

216. Letter from Harry James Hoy to Ivy Hoy

Same address
Sgt. H. Hoy 25696

Dear Sister,
Many thanks for your loving letter, pleased ...
Date: 1 October 1917
Image ID HJH_013_003

217. Noel Beadle, Royal Artillery. Noel was posted to Mersea with 373 Coastal Defence Battery between 1940 and 1942.
Date: 1941
Image ID HNB_003

218. Wedding of Ruth Martin and Noel Beadle. The wedding took place in West Mersea Parish Church. Photograph by J.R. Board, Buxton.

Ruth was the daughter ...
Date: 4 February 1943
Image ID HNB_005

219. Noel Beadle, Royal Artillery.

In September 1941 Noel attended a final interview board for a commission. He then went to Catterick for his Officer ...
Image ID HNB_039

220. On 2nd September 1944, a few days after writing his last letter home. Noel Beadle was driving a jeep leaving Florence towards the Gothic Line. Some way behind ...
Date: 2 September 1944
Image ID HNB_041

221. Charlie 'Ripper' Hoy. The back of the photo says it is Harris Hoy, but this is thought to be wrong.
Image ID HOY_021

222. WW1 soldiers. A note on the back says the soldier nearest the shed is thought to be Charlie 'Ripper' Hoy.
Image ID HOY_023

223. Charlie 'Ripper' Hoy. The cap badge is the Essex Regiment, which Charles enlisted in, as did his brother William.
Image ID HOY_025

224. Harris William Hoy WW1 notebook. Bullett hole upper right.
Date: c1917
Image ID HOY_BK1_001

225. Harris William Hoy WW1 notebook.
Pte F.N. Pullen
293.6 10th Essex Regt,
? Coy 3 Platoon
BEF France

9585 Pte J. Green,
1st ...
Date: c1917
Image ID HOY_BK1_055

226. Harris William Hoy WW1 notebook.

Mrs H. Hoy,
Haycocks Farm
East Mersea
Nr Colchester
Essex

Able Seaman E. Hoy [Ernest ...
Date: c1917
Image ID HOY_BK1_056

227. Harris William Hoy WW1 notebook. [back page - cover missing]
2967 Pt H. Hoy Essex Regiment [crossed out]

A/200880 Pte H. Hoy
21st ...
Date: c1917
Image ID HOY_BK1_058

228. Army Prayer Book - from Harris William Hoy
Date: c1917
Image ID HOY_BK2_001

229. Harris William Hoy WW1 notebook.
If found Please Return
c/o Mrs H. Hoy, Haycocks Farm, East Mersea, Essex, England.
The hole top left is a bullet ...
Date: c1917
Image ID HOY_BK2_002

230. George Walter Hewes in the Australian Army. A postcard sent back from the front. Walter was killed in the Battle of Fromelles, 20 July 1916
Date: c1916
Image ID HRF_003

231. A postcard sent back from the front during WW1, by Walter Hewes.
Date: c1916
Image ID HRF_005

232. Letter from Harris William Hoy to Ivy Hoy.

My Dear Sister,

I hope you are still in the best of health as it leaves me the same. I am glad to ...
Date: 2 November 1916
Image ID HWH_105_003

233. YMCA. On Active Service with the British Expeditionary Force.
Letter from Rifleman Harris William Hoy to his sister Ivy Alice Hoy at Haycocks Farm, East ...
Date: 13 January 1917
Image ID HWH_113_003

234. Letter from Harris William Hoy to Ivy Hoy

My Dear Sister, I hope you are still in the best of health as it leaves me the same I am glad to say. Many ...
Date: 27 January 1917
Image ID HWH_115_003

235. ROCHESTER CASTLE arriving Malta in August 1942. She was one of only five merchant ships to get through in Operation Pedestal to relieve Malta.
Date: August 1942
Image ID IA002390

236. The Liberty Ship SAMLONG in the River Blackwater, taken from Mell Creek, Tollesbury. Part of a postcard - see ...
Date: c1948
Image ID IA003870

237. Six Tollesbury Men in One Warship. At least six men from Tollesbury have served on board the auxiliary vessel HMS MALAHNE.
Leading-Seaman R.W. Leavett and ...
Date: 24 September 1943
Image ID IA004811

238. No One Volunteered AS the 13th Man! Tollesbury's Fame in the Navy
Reporter finds that in the little fishing village of Tollesbury, as many as 12 ...
Date: 2 October 1943
Image ID IA004812

239. Members of the regular company take it easy on the deck of the yacht L'ESPERANCE which is lying on the Hard awaiting removal of her lead keel before being put ...
Date: c1918
Image ID IA01_441

240. Barfield Road Cemetery. Names of local men lost 1914 to 1918. Banners built by Steve Green. Red woollen poppies made by the Royal British Legion Women's ...
Date: 28 August 2018
Image ID IA01_815