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Bomber Plane Crash WW11 at Bluestone Plantation.

Handley Page Hampden Bomber Plane 1941

WW11 Bomber Plane crash.

On February 10th 1941 a Handley Page Hampden bomber plane crashed into Bluestone plantation killing all the aircrew: Flight Lieutenant John Frutiger, Sergeant John Hill, Flight…

Tags: 1941, 61 Squadron, Bill Sampson, Blackberry Wood, Bluestone, bombing, Cawston, Chanin, crash, Frutiger, Gapp, Germany, Hampton, Handley, Hemswell, Hill, memorial, Norfolk, Oulton, Page, plane, Plantation, RAF Oulton, unveiling, Wilhelmshhaven, ww11

A Fearful Freedom

This book is about the amazing survival story which tells how Jim Wright, a Norfolk gamekeeper's son, aged 23, managed to evade capture by the Japanese in WW2....

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Tags: book, Fearful Freedom, Japanese, ww11, ww2

Air Crash While Filming

During filming for "A Yank in the RAF"....

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More info can be found at the Heritage Centre.

Tags: air, Anson, Avro, crash, filming, Hurricane, plane, RAF, Yank

Airfields in the Cawston Area

Haveringland/Swanington +: When the second World War broke out, Haveringland Hall and its surrounding parkland was taken over by the Air Ministry.... Please remember that Haveringland hall was used by the Royal Engineers, (288th Field Company) at…

Tags: air, airfields, area, bells, Catton, Church, demolished, Edwards, fields, funeral, Hall, Haveringland, Mosquito, navigator, Norfolk, plan, RAF, second, sign, site, St Peter’s, stocks, Swannington, Village, war, world, world war 11

Another Place - Another Christmas

The night before Christmas Eve, dug in one side of a canal in Northern Italy,...

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Tags: Christmas, Hamley, second, war time memories, world war, ww11

Armistie Day 1918

Church photo on 11th November 1918 with the flag on the tower...

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Tags: 1918, Armistice Day, Churh

ARP Helmet

ARP Wardens: An organisation set up for WW11....

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Tags: Air Raid, ARP, helmet, precautions, ww11

Arthur T Dewing

Served with honour and was disabled in the Great War.

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Tags: Arthur, Dewing, disabled, great, Honour, served, war

Auxiliary Fire Service

The Cawston Auxiliary firemen with their Green Goddess appliance supported other services all over the Country which required water supplies, the service started during the 2nd World War in Reepham, moved to Haveringland and came to Cawston in…

Tags: awarded, David, Don, Goddess, Green, Holmes, Mick, Micky, Oakes, Ogden, Ronne, service

Bellboddy

History/Photo Collection

Tags: Aylsham, bearer, Bellboddy, Bellbody, Billy, British, Carman, collection, Dennis, Edward, Geoffrey, George, Howard, John, Legion, Lily, Louise, Murial, Oakes, Owen, photo, Rawlings, standard, Sylvia, William

Bert Stone

Forces Photos Pathfinder Squadron:

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Tags: 635 squadron, Bert, Pathfinder, Stone

Cecil Cawston

Memorial Service for Cecil Cawston, for info see relation link Village Hall.

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Company Sgt Major W.J. Hutton

The Royal Army Service Cor (RASC) merged with transportation.... Also see Link: Hutton/Gould Butcher Click on file to view full page....

Tags: atomic, Billy, bomb, boy, Company, Company Sgt Major, engineers, Hiroshima, Hutton, little, Major, Nagasaki, rasc, Royal, sgt, ww11, ww2

Control Knob and Wheel Part from Lucky Strike

Control Knob and wheel Part from Lucky Strike plane crash....

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Tags: control, crash, knob, Lucky, plane, Strike

Douglas Bros

Douglas Brothers and Extracts from WW1 Diaries. Children of Henry a Carpenter & Emma Douglas & having one brother & sister all of New Street Cawston.... Click on file to view full screen....

Tags: Andrews, Bros, Brothers, Dennis, Diaries, Douglas, Douglass, extracts, George, Kevin, Steve

Eric Monsey - He Died for His Country

Was killed in World War II....

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Tags: country, died, Eric, monsey, world war 11, ww11

Ex Forces Personnel

Not forgetting The Home Front who served in addition to their daily work - The Home Guard Local Defence Volunteers - LDV was original name of the Home Guard. The Red Cross Auxiliary Fire Service Related Link - Roll of Honourinc War Memorials etc

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Eyeshields, Anti-Gas, WW11

Eyeshields Air Spray protectors, for instructions see package/file....

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Tags: anti gas, eyeshield, eyeshields, ww11

Fifty Years On

World War Two affected everyone, from the youngest to the oldest and those who lived through those days have many and varied memories,...

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Tags: second, times, War times memories, world war, ww2

Forces Cap Badge Collection.

A collection of badges for forces caps....

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Tags: army, badges, cap badge, Corps, Devonshire, forces, Medical, Monmouthshire, Ordnance, Queens Lancers, Regiment, Royal., service

HMS Cornwall

History of HMS Cornwall as told by David Reid in memory of Lieutenant David Savile Read - a relative, This was the same ship that Frederick Stanley Gaskin of Cawston lost his life....

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Tags: 1942, David Reid, Frederick Gaskin, HMS Cornwall, HMS Dorsetshire, ww11

Home Guard

Home Guard:

Photo with Old Rectory in background.

Names reading from left:

Back Row: 4/ Don Radford. 5/ Jimmy Payne. 6/ Harrold Pratt. 7/ Tom Barker. 9/ Ernie Whall.
14/ Austin Clifford Roberts.
Second Row: 7/ John Long. 8/ Jack Delph.…

Tags: Austin, Barker, Carman, Clifford, defence, Delph, Don, Groom, guard, Harrold, Harry, home, Jack, jimmy, John, local, long, Neal, Payne, Pratt, Pye, Radford, Roberts, Tom, Tommy, Underwood, Whall, Wrnie

Incendiary Bomb and Certificate.

Incendiary bombs were filled with highly combustible chemicals and were dropped in clusters to spread fires....

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Tags: 1939, 1945, bomb, Cawston, Certificate, field, finds, found, Incendiary, ww11

Jack Harding Wilkins

On leaving school, Jack entered the motor trade as a mechanic. By 1939 he was serving with the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment....

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Tags: Burma, changi, death, engineers, Felicite, Harding, Jack, jail, railway, Royal, Siam, toch, Wilkins

Lucky Strike Plane Crash.

Memorial at Booton Rd. In 1944, Cawston was the scene of a plane crash involving an American bomber.... In 1996 a memorial to the crew of the "Lucky Strike" was unveiled by its Flight Engineer, Jack Sasson.... Click on file to view full screen....

Tags: 1944, Booton, Burckhalter, Cawston, Cox, crash, Delbert, Eddie, Evans, Everett, Harkness, Hoyt, Irving, Jack, jimmy, John, Julius, Kraut, Lucky, Marion, Melvin, memorial, Norfolk, Payne, Peggy, plane, Rasey, Raven, Rivera, road, Rowland, Samuels, Sasson, Scarborough, Strike, unveiling, Vargo

Manor - WW1 History and Photos

Wounded in Battle during WW1, was shipped back to UK to Norwich hospital and then spent a month convalescing at Cawston Manor....

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Tags: battalion, Cheetham, convalescent, fusiliers, James, Manor, Royal, Scots, Shirley, Turner, Waring, ww1

Memories 1914 – 1920s

In 1914 at the start of The War, soldiers on horseback went through the Street.... Click on file to view full screen....

Tags: 1914, 1920, memories, Thrower, war times

Mother Riley

Second World War:- A very interesting piece is on the BBC website....

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Tags: BBC, mother, Riley, website, ww2

National Service Guide Book 1939

A guide to the ways in which a service could be given to our country....

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Tags: 1939, book, guide, national, service

Ointment Jar WW11

Stoneware Anti-Gas Ointment Treatment Jar for the armed forces and home guard....

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Tags: anti gas, jar, ointment, stoneware, treatment, ww11

Pembroke Yeomanry Brigade

Billeting in Cawston at field now....

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Tags: billeting, Brigade, first car, James, Pembroke, South Wales, Thower, ww1, Yeoman, Yeomanry

R.C.A.F. Ration Book

Royal Canadian Air Force Airmen's Canteen Cigarette & Confectionery Ration Book.

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Tags: Airmens, book, ration, RCAF

RAF Christmas Card

Christma Card s as used by the RAF !940s

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Tags: 1940s, Card, Christmas, forces

Rationing WW11

Ration books and Buying Permit....

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Tags: book, buying, car, clothing, fuel, motor, permit, ration, rationing

Rations book.

Rations A Very Peculiar History With no added butter by David Arscott....

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Tags: book, percullia, Rations, ww11

Red Jungle

"Red Jungle" by John Cross, D.C.M which is a book about a tiny British party left behind in Malayato in 1942 to radio intellgence, they joined up with other British soldiers including Jim Wight....

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Tags: book, books, Red Jungle, ww11, ww2

Reg Bishop

"I was asleep in my hammock before the torpedo hit Hecla. I remember the ship shuddering and coming to a halt. This was because the first torpedo hit in the boiler room and we lost all steam....

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Lived in…

Tags: 1942, Africa, gunner, HMS Hecla, HMS Venomous, North, Reg Bishop, torpedo

Roll of Honour and War Memorials Lest We Forget

Roll of Honour for those who gave their lives for our country & War Memorials.

File 1/Roll of Honour WW1
File 2/Roll of Honour WW2
File 3/Lieutenant Cecil Faulkner Cawston - Boer War 1899-1902
File 4/ War Horses and Dogs
File 5/ War…

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School Wartimes Notes

1899: December 18th:- Children collected 30/- for the Boer War Fund....

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Tags: 1899, 1945, notes, school, wartimes

Spectacles for Aircrew WW11

Anti-Glare Spectacles for RAF Aircrew....

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Tags: aircrew, anti glare, RAF, spectacles, ww11

Thoughts of a Wartime childhood

Tags: children, Sonny Dewing, Wartime, ww11, ww2

War Times including Zeppelins last visit WW1

Zeppelins last visit from the school exercise book of N. B. Howard age about 10 years.... Mr Charles Clements in his Memories of old Cawston read: Zeppelin Raids; One of the worst moments was when one of the airships cut its engines and drifted in…

Tags: war times, ww1, ww2, Zeppelin, Zeppelins

War Times WW1/11 Memories/Diaries inc VE Day

War Times Memories and Diaries By: See Files on right and as following:- 1/Fifty Years On by John Kett 2/Thoughts of a Wartime childhood by Robert Sonny Dewing 3/School War Times Notes 4/Second World War by Bill Sampson 5/Another Place &…

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