241. 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

242. 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

243. 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

244. 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

245. Thomas Henry Bossence Batten, killed in action age 19, France, 29 July 1916
Date: c1916
Image ID IYS_050_003

246. 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

247. 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

248. 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

249. 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

250. 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

251. 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

252. 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

253. 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

254. 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

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

256. 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

257. 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

258. 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

259. 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

260. 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

261. 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

262. 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

263. 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

264. WW2 pillbox on in Cudmore Grove, East Mersea. It has an opening in the top with a spigot for mounting a light machine gun.
Date: July 1990
Image ID LH20_029

265. The back of this post card says 'Peace day July 18th 1919'.
Photograph taken in the school - the school log book for 21 July 1919 says "School closed to ...
Date: 18 July 1919
Image ID LIL_SCH_001

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

267. 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

268. Key to Mersea Island - Air Raid Precautions Map.
Date: c1945
Image ID MAP_ARP_002

269. Section of Mersea Island Air Raid Precautions Map.
Date: c1945
Image ID MAP_ARP_005

270. Section of Mersea Island Air Raid Precautions Map. See ...
Date: c1945
Image ID MAP_ARP_007