61. Zebedee Milgate, George Milgate, Johnny Hempstead (Mechanic), Sid Milgate (Painter).
Picture taken at the bottom of Kingsland Road near Stoker's Cafe ( ...
Date: cAugust 1946
Image ID FL01_069_001

62. West Mersea Fire Brigade - the wartime AFS fire engine.
L-R Oscar Whiting, Ernie Dixon, Gordon Mussett, Bob Russell, HoraceWhiting and Bob ...
Date: c1943
Image ID FL04_038_001

63. Owen Kitchener 'Tich' Hewes worked in a shipyard in Chichester. Owen believes 'Tich' was killed by a mine in the River Blackwater on a part of the river that ...
Date: c1941
Image ID FL07_004_001

64. One of many Second World War gun emplacements. This is the only survivor on the promenade and is now called "Two Sugars". To the left of this building linked by ...
Date: c1950
Image ID FL08_014_003

65. Bomb damage to one of the cottages in The Square. Miss Shooter lived in this cottage, but was unharmed. [ the 1939 Electoral Roll spells the name Shuter ...
Date: 29 October 1940
Image ID FL10_037_001

66. Farming the Sea. Mersea Oystermen at work in wartime. Page 3. Published in Illustrated Magazine 1944, though also used in The Salty Shore page 7, which dates it ...
Date: c1944
Image ID FL12_053_004

67. Newspaper cuttings 1941-42
...
28 June 1941 Death of Sapper Owen Kitchener Hewes or Royal Engineers. Also mentions the death of his sister Kate (Mrs ...
Date: c1941
Image ID FL14_011

68. It is with regret we record the death of Sapper Owen Kitchener Hewes, of the Royal Engineers. "Tich" as he was affectionately called by all who knew him, was a ...
Date: 28 June 1941
Image ID FL14_011_006

69. Mr B. Christmas reported missing - News has been received that Mr Bertie Christmas, only son of Mr and Mrs Christmas of Burton House, High Street North is ...
Date: 20 September 1941
Image ID FL14_013_001

70. Home Guard at Wings for Victory Parade
Oswald French is thought to be in the Front Rank on the left.
Date: 23 May 1943
Image ID FRC_002_011

71. £2 grant to meet £15 costs
Farmers on 6,000 Essex Acres want "Guaranteed Recompense"
Essex War Agricultural Committee have asked for ...
Date: 9 February 1940
Image ID FWK_1940_FEB09_099

72. 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

73. 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

74. Three Royal Army Service Corps soldiers, Colchester c1942/43. On the right is Geoffrey Norman Smith, who was stationed in the RASC Water Borne Training Wing at ...
Date: c1943
Image ID GNS_001

75. 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

76. 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

77. 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

78. 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

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

80. Land Girls buidling a stack at East Hall Farm. The cart belongs to J. Austin.
Date: c1943
Image ID GRD_LAN_009

81. Original caption on back of photograph is "Lil, two friends and myself with the ploughman and his horse".
Photograby by the Hall Barn, West Mersea with ...
Image ID GRD_LAN_013

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

83. 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

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

85. 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

86. 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

87. 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

88. 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

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

90. 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