241. 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 |
242. 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 |
243. The Liberty Ship SAMLONG in the River Blackwater, taken from Mell Creek, Tollesbury. Part of a postcard - see ... Date: c1948 Image ID IA003870 |
244. 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 |
245. 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 |
246. 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 |
247. 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 |
248. World War 2 Battery Observation Post at Cudmore Grove. It was the observation post for the Coastal Artillery battery located here in WW2. Erosion has since ... Date: 1970s Image ID IA01_WW2_003 |
249. Found underneath the wallpaper in an upstairs room at 120 Coast Road West Mersea. Blackboard for a list of Billets, and on another wall, a board for a list of ... Date: 1996 Image ID IA04_181 |
250. Found underneath the wallpaper at 120 Coast Road West Mersea. Blackboard for a list of Boat Crews, and on another wall, a board for a list of Billets. They were ... Date: 1996 Image ID IA04_183 |
251. Clifford Wyncoll is on the right and his sister's brother-in-law, Ernest Balls on the left. Date: c1915 Image ID IYS_035_001 |
252. Thomas Henry Bossence Batten, killed in action age 19, France, 29 July 1916 Date: c1916 Image ID IYS_050_003 |
253. In Loving Memory of My Dear Son Lce.Cpl. Thomas H.B. Batten,
26th Battalion Australian Imperial Force, Aged 19 years.
Killed in Action in France, 29 ... Date: 29 July 1916 Image ID IYS_050_005 |
254. Charles Godfrey Bonner. This Memorial Plaque was issued after the First World War to the next-of-kin of all British Empire service personnel who were killed as ... Date: 27 August 1918 Image ID IYS_194_005 |
255. A piece of shrapnel from the land mine which came down in the road in East Mersea.
20 November 1940 Parachute mine dropped on road between West and ... Date: 21 November 1940 Image ID JAS_001 |
256. Sent to Mrs E.M. Hayward, Rainbow Road West Mersea, by Queen Elizabeth to say thankyou for welcoming evacuees to her home in 1939.
Mrs Hayward said "Our ... Image ID JAY_EVC_005 |
257. Mersea Seed Growers during WW1. Bocking Hall Farm, Seed Growing War Time on 1,500 Acres.
From E.W. King, Seed growers, Coggeshall. See ... Date: c1917 Image ID JAY_SDG_005 |
258. Mersea Seed Growers during WW1. Land Army in First World War.
Mrs Goldy Green, Beatie Green, Mrs Watcham, Mabel Benns. [Names from back of card.] Date: c1917 Image ID JAY_SDG_007 |
259. Cudmore Grove before the days of the Country Park. Centre are the two former gun emplacements. On the side of the cliff, to the left is the Battery Observation ... Date: cJuly 1964 Image ID JBA_008_504 |
260. George Saunders Smith as a chosen right-hand man in RAF Guard of Honour for arrival of Prime Minisiter Winston Churchill at the docks in Reykjavik, Iceland. He ... Date: 16 August 1941 Image ID JDV_GSS_031 |
261. Winston Churchill visiting Iceland during WW2. George Saunders Smith is part of the Guard of Honour. Date: 16 August 1941 Image ID JDV_GSS_033 |
262. George Saunders Smith returning from Iceland. He is on the left, sitting on the rail. Date: 1942 Image ID JDV_GSS_035 |
263. Fred Wass. Oxf. & Bucks. Airborne
He is wearing the shoulder badge of the British Airborne Division, representing the mythological figure of Pegasus. ... Image ID JFW_003_005 |
264. On the Water, by J.M. Ellis. West Mersea fishermen and their families in WW2. Page 1.
A study of the experiences and consequences of the Second World War ... Date: November 1999 Image ID JME_002 |
265. Salcott Fire Service in WW2. Letter to Mr P.J. Ponder, Rose Villa, Virley, reference medical examinations by Dr. J. Reid Moir.
W. Foakes, Zaza ... Image ID JMO_FIR_005 |
266. L-R back 1. Charlie Woods, 2. John Chatters, 3. Hannah Chatters (mother of Charlie senior), 4. Edwin Chatters, 5. Charles Chatters.
Front 1. Charlie Woods ... Date: c1914 Image ID JNY_OPA_009 |
267. Richard Francis - Grandfather of Kay Francis. Born c1883.
After WW1, Richard was a farm worker in Salcott, and also worked on the building of Abberton ... Date: c1915 Image ID KBA_PPL_111 |
268. Wedding of Knud Andersen and Ella Janet Smith at Gumley, Leicestershire.
Knud was a Danish seaman who had jumped ship at the beginning of WW2 and joined ... Date: August 1942 Image ID KDA_001 |
269. Dedication of War Cross at Layer de la Haye
See linkres,id=LDH_WW1_001; for transcription. Date: 28 October 1917 Image ID LDH_WW1_003 |
270. Layer de la Haye - World War 1 survivors
Top Row: L-R Stan Curtis, Sidney Porter, A Green, Fred Curtis, Robert Demmant
Front Row: L-R
Wilfred Allen, ... Date: c1919 Image ID LDH_WW1_005 |