61. George Henry Turton died in a field adjoining the sea wall East of the Decoy, West Mersea. 24 years old.
From 89 Bonsall Street, Hulme, Manchester. A ...
Date: 31 March 1941
Image ID GHT_001

62. Death Certificate for Richard Victor Armstrong of 107 Roseneath Road, Urmston, Lancashire, Sergeant in H.M. Army. He died 31 March 1941 in a field adjoining the ...
Date: 31 March 1941
Image ID GHT_005

63. Gowen & Co., Mersea. This was taken during the war and contain Jack Gurton (Nancy Smith's father) on the left then a Government Inspector and then Kenneth ...
Date: c1943
Image ID GOW_OPA_039

64. Land Girls. George 'Hoilly' Green with girls of Women's Land Army. Bottom of Fairhaven Avenue. Elsie & Doris lodged with David Green's parents.
Image ID GRD_LAN_001

65. Land Girls. Back Lily, Joan Pullen (Mrs Ward) [but back of photo is crossed out and says "Clair"], Elsie. Front Edie and Doris. The field is now Windsor Road, ...
Date: 1943
Image ID GRD_LAN_003

66. Land Girls at Bower Hall Farm, Mersea. 1. Elsie, 2. Doris, 3. Alexander, 4. Edie, 5. Mona Quick from Shoreditch. Driver Frank Richer. Caterpillar D4 ...
Date: 1943
Image ID GRD_LAN_005

67. Land Girls. Bert Wright,
Front L-R Doris, Lil.
Back Kath, Bert Wright, Mona, Elsie.
Image ID GRD_LAN_007

68. Land Girls during threshing at East Hall Farm. The cart belongs to J. Austin.
Date: c1943
Image ID GRD_LAN_009

69. Les Green on bike with Land Girls
Image ID GRD_LAN_015

70. Ern Butcher. policemen. Muriel's friend. From Muriel Butcher then Titford (née Pullen). Note the air raid siren above the sand bags.
Image ID HAY_BUT_074

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

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

Noel was killed in ...
Date: 4 February 1943
Image ID HNB_005

73. 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

74. 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

75. 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

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

77. 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

78. 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

79. 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

80. 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

81. 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

82. 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

83. 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

84. George Saunders Smith returning from Iceland. He is on the left, sitting on the rail.
Date: 1942
Image ID JDV_GSS_035

85. 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

86. 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

87. 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

88. WW2 pillbox on East Mersea Stone.
Essex SMR / EHER 10035.
Date: July 1990
Image ID LH20_029

89. Cudmore Grove. WW2 remains on beach.
Date: c1995
Image ID LNZ_011

90. Mersea Island - Air Raid Precautions Map. Original map held by Museum. Very fragile. There are many drawing pin holes in the map, perhaps indicating bombs and ...
Date: c1945
Image ID MAP_ARP_001